23 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1983
Union Carbide Sistersville Plant Capital Work Order 380-564, Safety & Health – Insulation (Asbestos Insulation Replacement), with Handwritten Notes (1983)
Capital work order package for a $500,000 project to repair or replace exposed asbestos insulation in the Steam Plant and Monomers Area of the Sistersville, WV plant, replacing it with calcium silicate insulation. It includes the work order form, an…
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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 · February 11, 1985
W. L. Thomas to W. E. Ballard and Others Calling a Meeting on the Asbestos Insulation Replacement Project, with J. G. Roy's No. 2 Steam Plant Proposal (1985)
A February 11, 1985 memorandum from W. L. Thomas called a February 21, 1985 meeting to plan an asbestos insulation replacement project at the South Charleston plant and attached a December 27, 1984 proposal by J. G. Roy. Roy's proposal outlined a…
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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 · February 25, 1985
I. L. Beckett to W. E. Ballard et al. on Minutes of the Asbestos Insulation Replacement Project, Phase I Meeting, South Charleston Plant (1985)
Memorandum giving minutes of a February 21, 1985 meeting on a project to repair and replace asbestos insulation at the South Charleston Plant. It records the 1985 funding limit, the choice of six departments to start with, the plan to use…
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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 · December 16, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Stay of OSHA's Emergency Temporary Standard for Asbestos (1983)
A one-page memorandum reporting that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Asbestos Information Association's request to stay OSHA's emergency temporary standard on occupational asbestos exposure. It states that the order bars OSHA from…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 5, 1984
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on Court Ruling Disallowing the OSHA Asbestos Emergency Temporary Standard (1984)
A one-page memorandum from W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson, with copies to others, reproducing a summary from Occupational Safety and Health Reporter. The summary reports that the Fifth Circuit struck down OSHA's emergency asbestos standard. Young…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard at South Charleston, with OSHA Exposure Estimates and Emergency Standard Text (1983)
A December 15, 1983 memorandum from W. C. Young summarizes the points of OSHA's emergency temporary asbestos standard (effective November 4, 1983) that would affect plant operations. For each change (the 0.5 f/cc limit, employee training, respirator…
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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 · December 15, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard (1983)
Memorandum summarizing the points of OSHA's amended emergency temporary asbestos standard, effective November 4, 1983, most likely to affect plant operations. It lists the changes (the permissible exposure limit cut from 2 to 0.5 f/cc, training, and…
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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 · May 22, 1985
A. E. Wood to All Department Heads on Use of Non-Asbestos Gaskets at South Charleston (1985)
Memorandum from A. E. Wood reporting that the GR shop had used non-asbestos gaskets on pump heads since 1983 to decrease asbestos exposure, and that inspected non-asbestos gaskets showed binder attack by process chemicals. It sets out an action plan…