19 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Changing at Texas City (1979)
Internal memo from an industrial hygienist reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's October 16, 1979 visit to the Texas City plant to investigate potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges. It describes an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1985
Kirk E. Martin to S. J. Footer and D. R. Reem on Texas City Plant Asbestos Concerns (1985)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Industrial Hygiene department at Texas City, reporting that asbestos-containing insulation and other materials at the Texas City Plant had become a health and public relations concern. It describes six…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Change at Texas City (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo from an industrial hygienist at Texas City reporting an October 16, 1979 OSHA visit on potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges at the loading rack. It describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 23, 1975
David H. Glenn, M.D., on Annual Asbestos Screening of Gulf Coast Area Employees (1975)
Letter from the Gulf Coast Area medical director reporting that annual screening of employees with regular potential asbestos exposure had been completed. The screening included chest x-ray, spirometry, a respiratory disease questionnaire, chest…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 13, 1985
S. J. Footer to F. S. Provenzano on the Texas City Plant Insulation Repair Program (1985)
Internal memo of August 13, 1985 recommending that the Texas City plant insulation repair project be split into operating facilities and facilities shut down for future demolition, with repair completion targets of one to three years depending on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1985
Kirk E. Martin to S. J. Footer and D. R. Reem on Texas City Plant Asbestos Concerns (1985)
Internal Industrial Hygiene memo about asbestos-containing insulation and other materials at the Texas City Plant. It reports six Notices of Violation from the Galveston County Health Department, possible state fines, and No. 2 Olefins as the top…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1979
A. P. Yalcinkaya to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Inspection of the Texas City Plant's Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Building (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's August 17, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant after an employee complaint about resin dust levels and respirator use in Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Bldg…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Distribution on OSHA Respiratory Protection Requirement for Asbestos Tear-Out (1972)
Memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to a list of Union Carbide recipients reporting OSHA's interpretation of respiratory protection for asbestos tear-out or removal. It states that OSHA's Delbert Flowers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 18, 1985
D. R. Reem (Texas City Plant) Handwritten Note on the Texas City Olefins Asbestos Problem, with BNA Newsletter and Galveston Daily News Clippings (1985)
…down, so the content is not readable from the OCR Galveston Daily News article, January 31, 1985, on the county health district voting to sue Union Carbide and its demolition contractor Kimmons Inc. over asbestos handling
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 27, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. R. Guest on Asbestos Dust Monitoring at the Texas City Plant (1972)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which an industrial hygienist sent H. R. Guest the available asbestos dust study data for the Texas City plant. He listed limits on the data and said asbestos was still in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 19, 1985
J. F. Schultz, Plant Asbestos Project Memorandum on Asbestos Insulation Repair at the Texas City Plant, with Transmittal to Plant Managers (1985)
…F. Schultz dated July 19, 1985 reporting on a survey of exposed asbestos-suspect insulation at the Union Carbide Texas City Plant. It ranks problem areas by priority with repair cost estimates (grand total 1791.1)…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 23, 1982
David H. Glenn, M.D., to Jose Kuri, M.D., on Contract Physician Duties for the Brownsville Plant (1982)
Letter from Union Carbide's Gulf Coast Area medical director to a Brownsville, Texas physician setting out the duties of a contract physician for the Brownsville Plant. It lists the pre-employment, periodic and medical surveillance…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 14, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. B. Coons and Others on the OSHA Permanent Asbestos Standard (1972)
A June 14, 1972 memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to Texas City managers and a physician. It summarizes 18 requirements of OSHA's first permanent asbestos standard, including exposure limits, monitoring, medical examinations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1985
Kirk E. Martin to S. J. Footer and D. R. Reem on Texas City Plant Asbestos Concerns (1985)
Internal memo from Industrial Hygiene at the Texas City Plant reporting that asbestos-containing insulation and other materials had become a high-priority concern, that the Galveston County Health Department had issued six Notices of Violation, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 23, 1982
Duties and Responsibilities of Contract Physician at the Brownsville Plant, with D. H. Glenn Memo to B. Glock and J. Wyatt on Brownsville Visit (1982)
Duties and Responsibilities of Contract Physician, Union Carbide Corporation, Brownsville Plant (undated; BRF 0334-0335) Internal correspondence, D. H. Glenn to Bob Glock/Jack Wyatt, 'Brownsville Visit, 8/26-27/82', August 23, 1982 (BRF 0332…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 9, 1979
Harvey R. Schulz to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Complaint Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's September 28, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant to investigate an employee complaint about road dust north of the #3 Olefins furnaces. It describes the meeting and tour, the plant's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 12, 1982
Linda Marley to J. L. Wyatt on the Health Program at the Brownsville Plant (1982)
Internal Union Carbide letter-memo from Linda Marley to J. L. Wyatt at the Brownsville plant, with a copy to Dr. David H. Glenn. It gives seven recommendations for expanding the plant's health program to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 28, 1972
Industrial Hygiene Asbestos Dust Study of Kaylo Insulation Removal (C. W. Perry) and D. H. Glenn to R. L. Yelton on OSHA Asbestos Compliance (1972)
Pages 1-2 are a handwritten Industrial Hygiene Department asbestos dust study dated 12-8-72. It reports personal and area air sample results (fibers/cc) for two insulators removing Kaylo-20 insulation from a converter in Building 17, with remarks on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 4, 1974
David H. Glenn, M.D., Memo to File on Asbestos Exposure in Filter Changing and Cleaning at Building 122 (1974)
A memo to file by David H. Glenn, M.D., about complaints from E. C. Swiedom that a clean-up at Building 122 did not comply with OSHA. It reports that a June 1974 sample showed less than 1 fiber per cc for the operator and a janitor, and that the…