35 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 · 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 · July 20, 1978
L. T. Windel to W. W. McManus and R. C. Glock on Monitoring of Contract Personnel (1978)
Internal correspondence from the Brownsville, Texas, Chemicals and Plastics office reporting comments by Jim Murray and Joe Triplett on how to handle industrial hygiene monitoring and liability for contractor employees' exposure. It lists six points…
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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 · April 23, 1978
K. Gran Townsend to B. F. Brown, R. C. Glock, E. O. Davis and R. F. Green Transmitting Status of OSHA Health Standards for Chemical Exposure (1978)
A cover memo from K. Gran Townsend of Union Carbide's Chemicals and Plastics unit transmitted an updated summary of OSHA standards activity as of April 1978. The attachment lists completed and proposed OSHA health standards…
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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 22, 1979
K. Gran Townsend to Plant Distribution on OSHA Inspection of Brown & Root at Brownsville, with Mario Gutierrez's Inspection Summary (1979)
Cover memo of August 22, 1979 forwarding a summary of an OSHA inspection of contractor Brown & Root at the Brownsville plant, reporting that no citations were given. The attached August 16, 1979 summary to K. G. Townsend describes the August 15…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 27, 1978
L. T. Windel to K. G. Townsend Forwarding the Revised EPA Asbestos Air Pollutant Regulation, 40 CFR 61, Brownsville Plant (1978)
A two-page internal memo from L. T. Windel to K. G. Townsend at the Brownsville, Texas plant forwarding the revised asbestos air pollutant regulation. It notes the EPA notification requirement for removal of asbestos pipe covering and proposes a…
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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 · 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 · August 22, 1979
K. G. Townsend to A. L. Barefoot and Others Transmitting Summary of OSHA Inspection of Brown & Root at the Brownsville Plant (1979)
A cover memo of August 22, 1979 transmits a summary of an OSHA inspection of Union Carbide's contractor Brown & Root at the Brownsville plant. The attached memo of August 16, 1979, addressed to K. G…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 30, 1977
J. L. Garcia to B. F. Brown, R. C. Glock, K. G. Townsend and Staff on the EPA Asbestos Standard and Proposed Amendment (1977)
Internal Union Carbide correspondence from the Brownsville, Texas, Chemicals and Plastics location summarizing the EPA national emission standard for asbestos, first promulgated April 6, 1973. It describes the demolition and renovation notification and removal requirements, the…