35 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1979
Union Carbide Confined Space Entry Standard SH-103 (1979), with 1987 South Charleston Variance Request and Sistersville Memo on Entry into Asbestos Enclosures
Union Carbide Chemicals/Plastics standard SH-103, Confined Space Entry Procedure, pages 1 and 3 of 3 (December 1979) South Charleston Plant request for variance from S/H Procedure 2.4, Confined Space Entry, for asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 8, 1979
L. W. Phair to Plant Staff on Asbestos Insulation Disposal at the South Charleston Plant (1979)
Internal correspondence dated October 8, 1979, from L. W. Phair to ten plant staff members about disposal of asbestos insulation at the South Charleston Plant. It states that asbestos insulation must go in dumpsters taken to Fillmont, not regular…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 29, 1979
L. W. Phair to Maintenance Supervision on Removal of Insulation, with Attached South Charleston Asbestos Removal and Disposal Safety Procedure (1979)
A 1979 internal letter from L. W. Phair to South Charleston plant maintenance supervisors says the new asbestos handling procedure applies to all crafts. It tells supervisors to arrange training and equipment for employees who do incidental…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 4, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to John Cornell on Recording and Reporting of Asbestos-Related Radiographic Abnormalities, with Attached OSHA Recordkeeping Instructions and 1979 Raybestos-Manhattan Surveillance Paper (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which H. C. Lewinsohn followed up a March 29, 1983 Charleston meeting on classifying asbestos-related chest x-ray abnormalities for record-keeping. He attached OSHA recordkeeping instructions he had prepared…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 17, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to R. W. Rebholz on Asbestos Labeling, with Proposed Chrysotile Label, Health Notes and Kuryla Letter (1983)
Internal memo of February 17, 1983 in which Dr. Lewinsohn responded to Rebholz's February 15, 1983 memorandum and proposed asbestos label, saying the proposed wording was too brief and suggesting an amended label. The exhibit attaches a proposed…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 4, 1987
A. L. Barefoot to Location Managers on Employee Pulmonary Problems (1987)
A memo marked Business Confidential reporting that Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn of Corporate Medical said at an OSHA/Asbestos meeting in Danbury that employees with asbestosis or other severe pulmonary problems should not work with asbestos materials.…
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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 · October 14, 1987
L. W. Phair and J. E. Burke to Bulletin Boards, Department Heads and First Line Supervisors on an Asbestos Information Session at the Sistersville Plant (1987)
Memorandum announcing two information sessions on asbestos for all Sistersville Plant employees on October 20, 1987, to be presented by Robert N. Sawyer, M.D. The memo says he would discuss the reasons for current employee exposure limits and 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 · October 17, 1979
L. W. Phair to W. A. Garrett, K. R. Garrison, W. B. Troutman and D. D. Wragg on Who Removes Asbestos Insulation, with Draft Letter to Maintenance Supervision (1979)
A cover memo from L. W. Phair dated October 17, 1979 responds to J. L. Taylor's question about requiring insulators to do all insulation stripping, and asks for comments on an attached draft letter. The draft letter, addressed to Maintenance…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 5, 1986
D. G. Beddow to L. W. Phair on Asbestos Insulation Investigation, with D. A. Boggs to S. L. Curtis on Serious Asbestos Health Hazard at the Sistersville Plant (1986)
Two Union Carbide Sistersville, WV memos from November 1986 about deteriorating asbestos insulation on six distillation columns in the methyls/monomers area. The Nov. 5 memo from D. G. Beddow describes the condition, lists repair options…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 10, 1987
L. W. Phair to Department Heads and Coordinators on Interim Procedure for Entry Into Asbestos Enclosures at Sistersville (1987)
Memorandum from L. W. Phair dated June 10, 1987, setting out an interim procedure, not to exceed 30 days, for entry into asbestos removal enclosures at the Sistersville plant. It called for the Maintenance Department to barricade enclosures and for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 6, 1987
W. V. Summers to D. G. Beddow, K. F. Carroll and L. W. Phair on Asbestos Removal Strategy at the Sistersville Plant (1987)
Memo from W. V. Summers transmitting a brief on the Sistersville plant's strategy and resources for meeting newly required OSHA asbestos handling guidelines, with cost estimates for materials and personnel. Attached is a draft procedure for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 26, 1985
W. E. Ballard to R. G. Link on Asbestos Insulation at the South Charleston Plant (1985)
Internal memo reporting a follow-up with Corporate HS&EA on removing asbestos insulation at plant facilities. It states the corporation has no requirements beyond government regulations, summarizes the asbestos programs at Seadrift and Institute, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 29, 1979
L. W. Phair to Maintenance Supervisors on Removal of Insulation Under the New Asbestos Handling Procedure (1979)
Letter from L. W. Phair to four maintenance supervisors about who may remove insulation under the company's new asbestos handling procedure. It said minor, incidental removal could be done by other crafts, that the procedure applied to everyone, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 17, 1980
H. C. Lewinsohn, J. W. Meigs and M. J. Teta, Draft of 'Malignant Mesothelioma in Connecticut 1935-1977' for the Connecticut Thoracic Society (1980)
Annotated draft of a paper for presentation to the Connecticut Thoracic Society on malignant mesothelioma cases identified by the Connecticut Tumor Registry (CTR) from 1935 to 1977. It covers methodology, descriptive epidemiology with tables and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1978
P. H. Cooper, J. E. Day, C. A. Kennedy and H. C. Lewinsohn, 'Dust Control in a Conventional Asbestos Textile Factory,' Paper for the 5th International Conference on Pneumoconiosis, Caracas (1978)
Conference paper by four Raybestos-Manhattan authors describing how the company cut dust in its asbestos textile plant at Marshville between 1969 and 1977. It covers the history of asbestos exposure standards, the plant's pre-1969 condition, the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 1977
H. C. Lewinsohn, "Asbestosis — A Diagnostic Enigma: A Personal View," Journal of Occupational Medicine (1977)
A four-page journal article in which the author reviews how asbestosis is diagnosed: occupational exposure history, physical signs, radiological changes and lung function tests. It discusses British asbestos regulations from 1931 and 1969,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 26, 1982
Organization Resources Counselors Discussion Notes on the Asbestos Steering Group's Review of a Draft OSHA Asbestos Standard, with J. H. Marsh Routing Slip to H. C. Lewinsohn (1982)
…Marsh', handwritten to H. C. Lewinsohn, Union Carbide, F.Y.I., stamped received Sep 10, 1982 Organization Resources Counselors discussion notes on the Asbestos Steering Group meeting of August 26, 1982 (points 1-25) on the…