29 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 5, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to W. N. Johnson on Gravimetric vs. Fiber-Count Evaluation of Asbestos (1972)
Confidential internal letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to W. N. Johnson of Mining & Metals about using a gravimetric (weight) system to evaluate asbestos. It reports that a brief trial at King City found no…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 9, 1973
Floyd H. Larrison Jr. to E. S. Prochnik on Press Coverage of Selikoff's Senate Testimony and the King City Asbestos Operation (1973)
…a clipping reporting Dr. Irving Selikoff's Senate subcommittee testimony. He wrote that the Salinas reporter was told Union Carbide had no comment on the testimony, but that the problems in general, the company's concern…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1972
John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson Transmitting Draft Interim Toxicology Report on Asbestos for Customer Mailing (1972)
A Feb. 18, 1972 internal memo from John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson sends Calidria's version of a proposed interim toxicology report and asks him to obtain management, medical and legal approvals for a general customer mailing. The exhibit also holds…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 21, 1971
Compilation: J. W. Rawlings Action Memo on Asbestos Test Program and King City Dust Control (1971), W. N. Johnson Memo on Airborne Asbestos Tests (1972), and B. A. Osby Memo on Institute Plant Landfill (1986)
Compilation of three Union Carbide internal memoranda. The 1971 Rawlings memo sets out action items after a December 17 asbestos meeting: simulated dust-count tests on customer uses, a two-year King City dust-control program…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 5, 1972
W. N. Johnson to R. G. Woolery on Following Up by Phone (1972)
A one-page note from W. N. Johnson to R. G. Woolery dated January 5, 1972. It says that, following a telephone conversation, Johnson would be in touch with the recipient on Friday or Monday. The note lists an enclosure, but none is included in the exhibit.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 17, 1972
W. N. Johnson to P. W. McDaniel and Others on the Test Program for Airborne Asbestos (1972)
Memo summarizing arrangements agreed at a January 12 meeting in Niagara for a program to measure airborne asbestos. The program covered a survey of employee exposure at customers' plants near Bartow, Florida, and laboratory tests at Niagara of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1971
E. Epremian to Asbestos Meeting Distribution Transmitting NRC Airborne Asbestos Extracts and Summary of Asbestos Laws (1971)
Internal memo of September 2, 1971 from E. Epremian sending background for the September 8 asbestos meeting on Environmental Factors. The enclosures are extracts of the 1971 National Research Council report 'Airborne Asbestos' (conclusions and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 9, 1972
Floyd H. Larrison, Jr. to W. N. Johnson on Air Sampling Program Results near the King City Mill and Mine (1972)
Internal letter from the King City office reporting results of air sampling taken around the King City mill (Feb. 29 and Mar. 1, 1972) and the mine area (Mar. 2, 1972). The letter concludes that no particle counted near the mill was asbestos, says…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1972
John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson Transmitting Interim Toxicology Report on Asbestos for Customer Mailing (1972)
…medical and legal approvals so it could be mailed to customers. The report discusses asbestos health effects, the OSHA and EPA rules of 1971-72 and dust control, and states Union Carbide's position on asbestos.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 12, 1972
W. N. Johnson to F. H. Larrison and E. A. Piersall Forwarding AIA/NA Memos on the FDA Asbestos Task Force and the Bureau of Mines Asbestos Dust Standard (1972)
A one-line cover note from W. N. Johnson, dated December 12, 1972, sends two Asbestos Information Association/North America (AIA/NA) letters to F. H. Larrison and E. A. Piersall. The first letter (Nov. 27, 1972) reports a meeting with FDA staff…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 17, 1969
J. A. Riddle to Matthew M. Swetonic (Johns-Manville) Requesting Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports (1969)
A one-paragraph letter from the Union Carbide plant manager at King City, California, to the Public Relations Department of Johns-Manville Corporation in New York. It asked that Union Carbide be placed on the distribution…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 5, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to W. N. Johnson on Gravimetric vs. Fiber-Count Evaluation of Asbestos Dust (1972)
A two-page internal letter, marked Confidential, from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to W. N. Johnson of Mining & Metals. It states that the Medical Department did not favor a gravimetric (weight) system for evaluating…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 12, 1972
W. N. Johnson Transmittal to F. H. Larrison and E. A. Piersall of AIA/NA Memos on FDA and Bureau of Mines Asbestos Actions (1972)
A one-line cover note from W. N. Johnson forwarding AIA/NA materials "for your information" to F. H. Larrison and E. A. Piersall. The enclosures are an AIA/NA membership and committee list, a November 27, 1972 letter from Matthew Swetonic on a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 9, 1973
Floyd H. Larrison, Jr. to E. S. Prochnik Forwarding Newspaper Articles on Dr. Selikoff's Senate Testimony and the King City Asbestos Operation (1973)
…reporting Dr. Irving Selikoff's Senate subcommittee testimony. The memo says a Californian reporter sought Union Carbide's comment on the testimony and was told the company had no comment, though the problems in general, the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 14, 1975
H. P. Cobb, Jr. to J. A. Johnson Transmitting King City Mining Agreement Summaries and Asbestos Financial Summary, 1971-1974 (1975)
A cover memo from Financial Control, subject 'King City', enclosing summaries of the asbestos mining agreements for San Benito and Fresno counties, California, and a financial performance summary for the asbestos business for 1971 through 1974. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 15, 1973
Floyd H. Larrison, Jr. to E. S. Prochnik Forwarding California Farmer Consumer Reporter Article on the Asbestos Hazard (1973)
Internal Union Carbide transmittal memo from the King City manager to the New York Public Relations Dept. enclosing an article on the asbestos hazard from the April-May 1973 California Farmer Consumer Reporter. The article, 'Confronting…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 12, 1962
K. W. Lentz, General Engineering Study, UCNC Pipe Project (UCN 74), Part III: Asbestos-Cement Pipe (1962)
Engineering study, Part III of the UCNC Pipe Project (UCN 74), on asbestos-cement pipe manufacture. It describes wet-process pipe-forming methods (Mazza, Morneni, Dalmine, Hiamanit) and the Johns-Manville plant at Dennison, Texas, and gives…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 3, 1969
M. M. Swetonic (Johns-Manville) to J. A. Riddle on Sending the Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program Quarterly Reports (1969)
…Swetonic, Johns-Manville, to J. A. Riddle, Union Carbide King City, July 3, 1969, with 'RECEIVED JUL 7 1969' stamp Progress Reports pages: coating process to control product dusts, solid waste and IIHRP, mask survey results…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 3, 1969
Matthew M. Swetonic (Johns-Manville) to J. A. Riddle on Sending Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program Reports (1969)
…Riddle, Union Carbide, July 3, 1969, enclosing IIHRP reports Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 1969), from the Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program at Mount Sinai: program funding, advisory council, respirator, PHS cooperation…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 30, 1973
Matthew M. Swetonic (Asbestos Information Association/North America) to Member Companies Transmitting Mine Safety Bill, Stanton Fiber Study and Press Clippings (1973)
Cover letter from the AIA/NA executive secretary to member companies transmitting enclosures: material on Rep. Daniels' bill to move metal and nonmetallic mine safety from the Interior Department to OSHA, newspaper coverage and the full text of Dr.…