28 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 5, 1986
T. E. Hanning to S. W. Clark and Others on Asbestos Update: Union Support for Proposed EPA Ban (1986)
…marked 'For Your Information', reporting that labor unions were endorsing a proposed EPA asbestos ban and contending that OSHA's 0.2 fiber/cc limit gave insufficient worker protection. It also summarizes the proposed EPA rule…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 21, 1984
G. D. Twait to Wayne Williams on November 1983 Revisions to SH-256, Removal and Handling of Asbestos-Containing Insulation Material (1984)
A handwritten 1984 note from G. D. Twait to Wayne Williams confirming that the asbestos permissible exposure limit in the November 1983 revision of SH-256 would stay at 0.5 fibers/cc, with attached material. The attachments are the OSHA emergency…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1987
L. S. Magelssen and H. W. Wegert to J. F. Dodd et al. on Status of Contingency Items for Asbestos Insulation Removal Upgrade, South Charleston (1987)
Two-page memorandum reporting that two contingency items attached to the May 19, 1987 health, safety and environmental endorsement of the South Charleston Asbestos Insulation Removal Upgrade-Phase I had been resolved. It discusses review of the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 28, 1985
W. C. Young to Plant Managers Department on Asbestos Exposure Effects and Potential of Non-Insulator Crafts, with Plant 514 Asbestos Dust Measurement Printouts (1985)
Internal memo of June 28, 1985 from the South Charleston Plant to the Managers Department stating that plant asbestos dust measurements were below OSHA limits, but the writer questioned whether any level of inhalation exposure is safe without…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 21, 1987
B. D. Marsh to D. Liebeskind Endorsing the South Charleston Insulation Upgrade Project, with R. R. Rankin's Memo of January 19 (1987)
Two Union Carbide memos about the South Charleston insulation upgrade project. In the January 19, 1987 memo, R. R. Rankin endorsed the project contingent on resolving items in the Wegert-Whipple review transmittal and on compliance…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 28, 1987
D. Liebeskind to L. W. Phair on Asbestos Orientation for Sistersville Plant Workers, with Asbestos Abatement Brochure (1987)
…would conduct an asbestos orientation for workers at the Sistersville plant for about $1000/day plus expenses. The memo asks for the Union's views and attaches a brochure, 'Asbestos Abatement: Doin' It Right – Work Practices'…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 19, 1987
R. R. Rankin to D. Liebeskind and B. D. Marsh, and B. D. Marsh to D. Liebeskind, Endorsing the South Charleston Insulation Upgrade Project (1987)
Two short internal memos about the South Charleston insulation upgrade project. On January 19, 1987, R. R. Rankin endorsed the project contingent on resolution of items in an October 30, 1986 Wegert-Whipple review transmittal and on compliance with…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 30, 1986
H. W. Wegert and G. M. Whipple to J. R. Dement et al. on Health, Safety, and Environmental Review of the South Charleston Insulation Upgrade Project (1986)
Memorandum reporting a health, safety and environmental review of a three-year project to upgrade asbestos insulation at the South Charleston Plant. It recommended endorsement contingent on revising Maintenance Procedure XVIII to comply with the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 7, 1986
D. A. Boggs to S. L. Curtis on Serious Asbestos Health Hazard in the Monomers North Rectification Area, Sistersville Plant (1986)
Memo from the Sistersville Plant industrial hygienist reporting exposed, deteriorating asbestos insulation on distillation columns in the Monomers North Rectification Area and chunks of asbestos material found on the ground up to about 60 yards…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 29, 1986
W. V. Summers to D. Liebeskind on the Sistersville Asbestos Insulation Upgrade Project (1986)
Memo dated October 29, 1986 from W. V. Summers at the Sistersville, WV plant to D. Liebeskind, with copies to six others, giving comments on the plant's asbestos insulation upgrade project. It describes damaged installed asbestos insulation as the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 7, 1986
J. F. Dodd to D. A. Gosselin and Others Transmitting the South Charleston Plant Insulation Asbestos Upgrade Outline of Project (1986)
Cover memo dated November 7, 1986 transmitting for review an Outline of Project for a plantwide asbestos insulation upgrade at the South Charleston, WV plant, described as a high-priority Safety/Health Program. The attached outline describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 26, 1984
W. E. Chambers and C. C. Smith, Jr. to W. H. Joyce, D. Liebeskind and R. G. Link Transmitting the South Charleston, WV Environmental Compliance Audit Report (1984)
Cover letter transmitting the final corporate environmental compliance audit report for the South Charleston, WV facility, audited August 27-30, 1984. It asks for prompt good-faith correction of noncompliance items. The attached page is a rotated…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 3, 1987
C. R. Rotthoff to Attached Distribution List on Asbestos Management in the Specialty Chemicals Division, with Attachment A from R. E. Plevan to D. Liebeskind on Encapsulation of Asbestos (1987)
A March 3, 1987 internal memo from C. R. Rotthoff gave HS&EA guidance on managing asbestos insulation at Specialty Chemicals Division facilities: encapsulation as an option, replacement of damaged insulation, and planned removal under existing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 21, 1984
J. R. Buzzard to D. A. Gosselin on Cleaning of Insulators Clothing at Vogue-Swift Cleaners, with OSHA Asbestos Rule Excerpt and Removal Checklist (1984)
An internal Union Carbide letter dated May 21, 1984, in which the Purchasing Agent outlined how clothing worn by insulators was sent for cleaning at Vogue-Swift Cleaners in Marietta, Ohio, and asked whether OSHA requirements…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 19, 1987
L. S. Magelssen and H. W. Wegert to J. R. Dement and Others on Health, Safety and Environmental Review of the South Charleston Asbestos Insulation Removal Upgrade, Phase I (1987)
A May 19, 1987 memo recommending endorsement of Phase I of a project to remove and upgrade asbestos insulation at the South Charleston plant. The endorsement is contingent on revising Maintenance Procedure XVIII to comply with OSHA 29 CFR 1926.58…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 2, 1987
M. G. Dwyer Transmittal and Capital Work Order for Asbestos Insulation Upgrade, Phase I, South Charleston Plant (1987)
A June 2, 1987 Danbury memo forwards a capital work order request for the Asbestos Insulation Upgrade - Phase 1 at the South Charleston Plant for review and approval. The attached work order (page 1 of 8 shown) describes the project as justified by…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 9, 1987
C. R. Rotthoff to W. J. Vincent on South Charleston Provisions for Asbestos Material Removal and Disposal (1987)
Internal correspondence in which C. R. Rotthoff commented on W. J. Vincent's South Charleston asbestos removal document, saying it assumed no technology exists to keep asbestos below the PEL. He suggested identifying which steps are mandatory…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 31, 1984
D. A. Gosselin to John Buzzard on Laundering Asbestos-Contaminated Clothing under the OSHA Standard (1984)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which D. A. Gosselin responded to John Buzzard's letter about laundering asbestos-contaminated clothing under OSHA Standard 1910.1001. He recommended that a letter be sent to the owner of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1987
L. S. Magelssen and H. W. Wegert to J. F. Dodd and Others on Status of Contingency Items for Asbestos Insulation Removal Upgrade, South Charleston (1987)
Memorandum reporting that two contingency items attached to the May 19, 1987 endorsement of the South Charleston asbestos insulation removal upgrade (Phase I) had been resolved. It says the February 1987 asbestos maintenance procedures were reviewed…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 31, 1984
D. A. Gosselin to John Buzzard on Laundering Asbestos-Contaminated Clothing, with Attachments (1984)
Gosselin's internal memo to John Buzzard reviewed Buzzard's May 21, 1984 letter on sending asbestos-contaminated insulators' clothing to Vogue-Swift Cleaners in Marietta, Ohio. He cited OSHA Standard 1910.1001, recommended a letter to the cleaner's…