39 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 5, 1971
Union Carbide R&D Project Reports: Industrial Hygiene Surveys of Bound Brook and Torrance Plants (R. W. Cope) and Asbestos Dispersion for Paper Coating (Kelly and Buttrick) (1970-1971)
Compilation of four Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics R&D project reports. Three are R. W. Cope's industrial hygiene surveys of the Bound Brook plant (August 1971 and February 1971) and the Torrance plant (May…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 1972
OSHA Reply to D. E. Deese on Asbestos Monitoring and Medical Exams, with Union Carbide Asbestos Insulation Removal Procedures and F. Williams Memo to R. J. Taylor (1972)
Compilation of four items: an OSHA letter replying to a Union Carbide industrial hygienist about the asbestos monitoring and medical examination requirements of 29 CFR 1910.93a; a Seadrift Plant procedure for removing asbestos insulation; and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 9, 1971
R. W. Schwartz Memo Forwarding Minutes of the GE/Hooker/Union Carbide Safety Meeting on Asbestos Handling (1971)
…July 9, 1971 cover memo sent a distribution list the minutes of a June 18, 1971 safety meeting among General Electric, Hooker Chemical and Union Carbide, and pointed readers to the asbestos paragraphs. The minutes, prepared…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 8, 1964
Union Carbide Chemicals Division Correspondence on Hiring a Texas Area Industrial Hygienist (1963-1964)
Internal Chemicals Division correspondence from December 1963 to January 1964 about whether to hire an industrial hygienist for the Texas Texas City, Seadrift and Brownsville plants. It includes N. H. Ketcham's request and attached memorandum, A. P.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 9, 1969
N. H. Ketcham to W. T. Barker and Others on Asbestos Air Sampling at PRESTONE Canning Plants (1969)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the industrial hygiene consultant, written after a March 18, 1969 letter from P. G. Bonin on precautions against inhaling asbestos fibers. It says Bonin's information was correct except for the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 3, 1979
Ron Ritchie to J. B. Leverton and R. J. Taylor Forwarding OSHA Jobsite Information Survey Correspondence (1979)
Cover memo from Ron Ritchie passing along correspondence about OSHA Jobsite Information Surveys, with an Employee Relations memo from R. V. Welty (Oct. 1, 1979) and a Sept. 21, 1979 letter from Law Department attorney John W. Whittlesey to J. B.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 29, 1972
Minutes of Meeting on Measuring Employee Asbestos Exposure to Meet the Proposed OSHA Standard, submitted by N. H. Ketcham (1972)
Minutes of a February 29, 1972 meeting of Union Carbide plant and Environmental Health Laboratory personnel to plan measurement of employee asbestos exposure under the proposed OSHA standard. The minutes list five objectives, attach an outline…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 29, 1972
N. H. Ketcham Minutes of Meeting on Measuring Employee Exposure to Asbestos Under the Proposed OSHA Standard (1972)
Minutes of a February 29, 1972 meeting of Union Carbide plant and laboratory staff to plan measurement of employee exposure to asbestos in line with the proposed OSHA standard. The minutes list objectives, agreed air-sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 26, 1962
N. H. Ketcham, Industrial Hygiene Summary Report, January-June 1962, with Institute Plant 512 Activities Report by R. E. Peele (1962)
Company-wide summary of industrial hygiene work at Union Carbide plants and the Technical Center for January-June 1962, signed by N. H. Ketcham and dated 9-26-62, followed by a distribution list and the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 24, 1965
J. D. Young to K. B. Lanham on Dust Sampling of "Carey-Temp" Insulation Block Cutting (1965)
Internal correspondence from Industrial Hygiene reporting on a dust sampling series run in the Insulation Fabrication Shop while a head grinder machine cut "Carey-Temp" insulation block. It said the dust-exposure health hazard of the operation was…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 24, 1955
J. D. Young to K. B. Lanham on Dust Sampling of "Carey-Temp" Insulation Block Cutting (1955)
Internal Chemicals Division memo from Industrial Hygiene at the Institute Plant to the Insulation Fabrication Shop. It reported results of dust sampling done while a head grinder machine cut "Carey-Temp" insulation block. It said the health hazard…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1979
A. Perihan Yalcinkaya to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Visit to the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal correspondence reporting an OSHA compliance officer's August 17, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant in response to an employee complaint about resin dust levels and respirator use in Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Bldg. 121. It describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 15, 1974
R. E. Graebert to W. W. McManus and R. C. Glock Transmitting the 1974 Safety Audit of the Brownsville Plant (1974)
Internal Union Carbide memo dated March 15, 1974 transmitting the 1974 annual safety audit of the Brownsville plant. The audit report covers interviews with plant employees and findings on training, the Brown and Root maintenance contractor…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 1, 1963
N. H. Ketcham, Industrial Hygiene Summary Report for July 1 - December 31, 1962 (1963)
A semiannual industrial hygiene summary report for July 1 - December 31, 1962, submitted by N. H. Ketcham. It summarizes selected hygiene activities at the Technical Center and the South Charleston, Institute, Texas City and Niagara Falls plants,…
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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 · December 14, 1967
N. H. Ketcham to Dr. G. F. Johnson Forwarding Industrial Hygiene Digest Abstracts on Asbestos and Cancer (1967)
A short note from N. H. Ketcham to Dr. G. F. Johnson enclosing abstracts from current literature on carcinogenic properties of inhaled asbestos, with copies to R. M. Berg, B. J. Cottrell, C. U. Dernehl, M.D., and Fred Williams. Attached are six…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 9, 1969
N. H. Ketcham to W. T. Barker et al. on Asbestos Air Sampling for PRESTONE Canning Plants (1969)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Research and Development Department, South Charleston, concerning asbestos and PRESTONE canning. It said P. G. Bonin's March 18, 1969 precautions on inhaling asbestos fibers were correct except for the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 7, 1972
J. E. Neff Trip Report on the NIOSH Course on Sampling and Evaluating Airborne Asbestos (1972)
…he attended November 20-22, 1972. It compares Union Carbide's Method 38C-29X4-R1 for sampling and counting asbestos fibers with NIOSH's procedure, notes NIOSH's revised fiber-counting rules, and records instructors' answers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 15, 1975
R. J. Taylor to C. A. Keil on Non-Employee Safety Guidelines for Contract Workers (1975)
One-page internal Union Carbide memo from R. J. Taylor to C. A. Keil transmitting guidelines for non-Carbide employee safety at the request of Lou Swann. It says the guidelines were assembled by a group…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 23, 1972
F. Williams to J. M. Butcher and Others Transmitting Industrial Hygiene Air Sampling Report on Insulating Work in Building 770 (1972)
A cover letter from F. Williams to four recipients forwards an Industrial Hygiene memorandum and data sheet on air sampling during the installation of asbestos-containing Kaylo pipe insulation and Johns Manville cement in Building 770 on August 2,…