45 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 3
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 5, 1971
Union Carbide R&D Project Reports: Industrial Hygiene Surveys of Bound Brook and Torrance Plants (R. W. Cope) and Asbestos Dispersion for Paper Coating (Kelly and Buttrick) (1970-1971)
Compilation of four Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics R&D project reports. Three are R. W. Cope's industrial hygiene surveys of the Bound Brook plant (August 1971 and February 1971) and the Torrance plant (May…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 1972
OSHA Reply to D. E. Deese on Asbestos Monitoring and Medical Exams, with Union Carbide Asbestos Insulation Removal Procedures and F. Williams Memo to R. J. Taylor (1972)
Compilation of four items: an OSHA letter replying to a Union Carbide industrial hygienist about the asbestos monitoring and medical examination requirements of 29 CFR 1910.93a; a Seadrift Plant procedure for removing asbestos insulation; and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 9, 1971
R. W. Schwartz Memo Forwarding Minutes of the GE/Hooker/Union Carbide Safety Meeting on Asbestos Handling (1971)
…July 9, 1971 cover memo sent a distribution list the minutes of a June 18, 1971 safety meeting among General Electric, Hooker Chemical and Union Carbide, and pointed readers to the asbestos paragraphs. The minutes, prepared…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 18, 1967
Union Carbide Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology Documents, Including D. E. Deese on Sandblasting (1967)
The exhibit is a compilation of Union Carbide industrial hygiene papers from a records-center folder labeled 'Industrial Hygiene Reports'. It includes a December 1967 memo on sandblasting and silicosis with respirator and air-supply recommendations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 8, 1964
Union Carbide Chemicals Division Correspondence on Hiring a Texas Area Industrial Hygienist (1963-1964)
Internal Chemicals Division correspondence from December 1963 to January 1964 about whether to hire an industrial hygienist for the Texas Texas City, Seadrift and Brownsville plants. It includes N. H. Ketcham's request and attached memorandum, A. P.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 9, 1977
Pfizer (P. Bartels) to D. L. Engle, Union Carbide Texas City, on Asbestos in Talc and OSHA Limits, with Texas City Stores List of Asbestos Items (1977)
…Engle, Texas City, Feb. 9, 1977, on OSHA asbestos standards and asbestos content of Pfizer talcs; page 1 carries handwritten routing notes and received stamps Union Carbide internal correspondence, J. L. Christensen to D. E. Deese…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 9, 1969
N. H. Ketcham to W. T. Barker and Others on Asbestos Air Sampling at PRESTONE Canning Plants (1969)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the industrial hygiene consultant, written after a March 18, 1969 letter from P. G. Bonin on precautions against inhaling asbestos fibers. It says Bonin's information was correct except for the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 29, 1972
Minutes of Meeting on Measuring Employee Asbestos Exposure to Meet the Proposed OSHA Standard, submitted by N. H. Ketcham (1972)
Minutes of a February 29, 1972 meeting of Union Carbide plant and Environmental Health Laboratory personnel to plan measurement of employee asbestos exposure under the proposed OSHA standard. The minutes list five objectives, attach an outline…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 29, 1972
N. H. Ketcham Minutes of Meeting on Measuring Employee Exposure to Asbestos Under the Proposed OSHA Standard (1972)
Minutes of a February 29, 1972 meeting of Union Carbide plant and laboratory staff to plan measurement of employee exposure to asbestos in line with the proposed OSHA standard. The minutes list objectives, agreed air-sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 17, 1974
D. E. Deese to Thomas T. Curry (OSHA) Requesting Personnel Monitoring Data from Vinyl Resins Plant Inspection (1974)
…from a Union Carbide senior industrial hygienist to the OSHA Area Director in Houston requesting a copy of personnel monitoring data collected by OSHA compliance officers during their June 1974 inspection of Union Carbide's vinyl…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Gran Townsend on Providing Asbestos Fiber Counts for Brown and Root Samples (1972)
Internal correspondence in which industrial hygienist D. E. Deese confirmed a telephone request from the Brownsville Plant about counting asbestos fibers on samples collected by Brown and Root personnel. He said the department was willing to provide…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 26, 1962
N. H. Ketcham, Industrial Hygiene Summary Report, January-June 1962, with Institute Plant 512 Activities Report by R. E. Peele (1962)
Company-wide summary of industrial hygiene work at Union Carbide plants and the Technical Center for January-June 1962, signed by N. H. Ketcham and dated 9-26-62, followed by a distribution list and the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 24, 1965
J. D. Young to K. B. Lanham on Dust Sampling of "Carey-Temp" Insulation Block Cutting (1965)
Internal correspondence from Industrial Hygiene reporting on a dust sampling series run in the Insulation Fabrication Shop while a head grinder machine cut "Carey-Temp" insulation block. It said the dust-exposure health hazard of the operation was…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 24, 1955
J. D. Young to K. B. Lanham on Dust Sampling of "Carey-Temp" Insulation Block Cutting (1955)
Internal Chemicals Division memo from Industrial Hygiene at the Institute Plant to the Insulation Fabrication Shop. It reported results of dust sampling done while a head grinder machine cut "Carey-Temp" insulation block. It said the health hazard…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 4, 1971
D. E. Deese to L. T. Windel Transmitting Walsh-Healey Act Materials, with Attached Walsh-Healey Safety Checklists and NAM Analysis (1971)
A February 1971 internal Union Carbide letter from an industrial hygienist to the Brownsville Plant enclosing 1970 Threshold Limit Values, an abstract of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and a noise paper, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 18, 1967
D. E. Deese on Sandblasting Hazards and Respirator Recommendations at Gulf Coast Plants (1967)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Gulf Coast industrial hygienist, written after industrial hygiene studies of sandblasting at two Gulf Coast plants. It describes silicosis, states that air-supplied abrasive-blasting hoods can protect operators, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 1, 1963
N. H. Ketcham, Industrial Hygiene Summary Report for July 1 - December 31, 1962 (1963)
A semiannual industrial hygiene summary report for July 1 - December 31, 1962, submitted by N. H. Ketcham. It summarizes selected hygiene activities at the Technical Center and the South Charleston, Institute, Texas City and Niagara Falls plants,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1968
R. E. Joyner, M.D., to Walt Morrison at Seadrift Plant on Asbestos Health Hazards and Dust Controls (1968)
Letter from R. E. Joyner, M.D., to Walt Morrison at the Seadrift Plant, answering questions about asbestos. It describes asbestos as a cause of lung fibrosis, gives a recommended maximum air level, recommends periodic chest x-rays and exams, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 14, 1967
N. H. Ketcham to Dr. G. F. Johnson Forwarding Industrial Hygiene Digest Abstracts on Asbestos and Cancer (1967)
A short note from N. H. Ketcham to Dr. G. F. Johnson enclosing abstracts from current literature on carcinogenic properties of inhaled asbestos, with copies to R. M. Berg, B. J. Cottrell, C. U. Dernehl, M.D., and Fred Williams. Attached are six…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 9, 1969
N. H. Ketcham to W. T. Barker et al. on Asbestos Air Sampling for PRESTONE Canning Plants (1969)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Research and Development Department, South Charleston, concerning asbestos and PRESTONE canning. It said P. G. Bonin's March 18, 1969 precautions on inhaling asbestos fibers were correct except for the…