38 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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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 · 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 · June 15, 1971
P. W. McDaniel and J. L. Myers Report of Call on EPA Office of Air Programs Regarding Calidria Pellets and Asbestos Emission Standards (1971)
Report of a June 1971 meeting between Union Carbide staff and EPA Office of Air Programs personnel (Source Control Branch) to discuss how Calidria pellets and the production system reduce asbestos dust. It records EPA's…
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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 10, 1971
J. W. Rawlings to E. Epremian and Others on Preparing an Asbestos Safety and Control Information Package for Customers (1971)
Memorandum from J. W. Rawlings asking seven recipients to draft assigned sections of an educational document on asbestos safety and control for customers, with drafts due September 27. The attached outline lists the proposed sections (introduction,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 5, 1973
P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison, Jr. on Air Samples Taken at the King City South Fence Line (1973)
Internal letter marked CONFIDENTIAL in which the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer reported air samples he collected on October 24, 1973 at the south fence line of the King City site. He gave fiber counts of 0.16 and 0.12 fibers/ml (5…
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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 · November 6, 1972
P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison on Dust Counts of Air Samples Collected at King City (1972)
Internal Union Carbide letter marked CONFIDENTIAL from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to the King City mill, reporting airborne fiber counts from samples taken October 18-19, 1972. It compares 25 mm and 47…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 23, 1974
E. A. Piersall to Larrison, McDaniel, Reichard, Thurber and Welsh on Asbestos Dust Sampling and Record Keeping, with L. Larrison's June 26, 1974 Reply on King City Sampling Program (1974)
Exhibit UC-1554 contains an August 23, 1974 internal memo from E. A. Piersall (Grand Junction) saying no conclusion had been reached on his proposed asbestos dust sampling and record keeping program for King City and suggesting a discussion during…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 1973
R. J. Sexton Cover Memo on Asbestosis Survey, with P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison on Fiber Sampling at Bagger Area and Mine Site (1973)
Page 1 is a 1 August 1973 internal memo from the Institute Plant Medical Department transmitting a report on a survey of Plant Maintenance and Utilities employees, subject 'Asbestosis'. Pages 2-4 are the second through fourth pages of an August 7,…
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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 · December 13, 1968
J. A. Riddle to P. W. McDaniel on Dust Count Results and Dust Control Measures at the King City Plant (1968)
Internal Union Carbide letter from J. A. Riddle to Dr. P. W. McDaniel of the Medical Department about dust count results taken by Kamens at the King City plant. It says the counts were generally within…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 10, 1978
G. J. Spencer to E. W. Shortridge Transmitting Airborne Asbestos Counts for King City, California (1978)
Internal Metals Division memo from Glenda J. Spencer transmitting ceiling fiber counts on short-term samples taken April 10-17, 1978 at King City, with an attached report dated May 2, 1978. The report gives phase contrast counts for personal samples…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 7, 1972
M. A. Peters to W. N. Johnson on Experimental Results for Airborne Asbestos, Part II (1972)
Memorandum from M. A. Peters reporting experimental work on a method of estimating airborne asbestos by measuring magnesium with atomic absorption spectroscopy instead of counting fibers. It covers reagent and filter blanks and air samples from four…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 4, 1973
P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison, Jr. Transmitting Fiber Counts from King City Air Samples (1973)
Confidential internal letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to the King City plant, transmitting a tabulation of fiber counts from air samples collected November 13 and 14, 1973. It states that time weighted averages were…
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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.