34 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 · December 18, 1967
Union Carbide Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology Documents, Including D. E. Deese on Sandblasting (1967)
The exhibit is a compilation of Union Carbide industrial hygiene papers from a records-center folder labeled 'Industrial Hygiene Reports'. It includes a December 1967 memo on sandblasting and silicosis with respirator and air-supply recommendations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 9, 1977
Pfizer (P. Bartels) to D. L. Engle, Union Carbide Texas City, on Asbestos in Talc and OSHA Limits, with Texas City Stores List of Asbestos Items (1977)
…Engle, Texas City, Feb. 9, 1977, on OSHA asbestos standards and asbestos content of Pfizer talcs; page 1 carries handwritten routing notes and received stamps Union Carbide internal correspondence, J. L. Christensen to D. E. Deese…
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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 · January 13, 1978
R. E. Graebert Forwarding J. W. Whittlesey's Advice to Dr. Welsh on OSHA Recordkeeping of Occupational Illnesses (1978)
A one-page cover memo dated January 13, 1978 from R. E. Graebert (Chemicals and Plastics Safety) to safety directors and the safety committee, attaching John W. Whittlesey's January 9, 1978 letter to Dr. Welsh on OSHA recordkeeping. The letter said…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 17, 1974
D. E. Deese to Thomas T. Curry (OSHA) Requesting Personnel Monitoring Data from Vinyl Resins Plant Inspection (1974)
…from a Union Carbide senior industrial hygienist to the OSHA Area Director in Houston requesting a copy of personnel monitoring data collected by OSHA compliance officers during their June 1974 inspection of Union Carbide's vinyl…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Gran Townsend on Providing Asbestos Fiber Counts for Brown and Root Samples (1972)
Internal correspondence in which industrial hygienist D. E. Deese confirmed a telephone request from the Brownsville Plant about counting asbestos fibers on samples collected by Brown and Root personnel. He said the department was willing to provide…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 4, 1971
D. E. Deese to L. T. Windel Transmitting Walsh-Healey Act Materials, with Attached Walsh-Healey Safety Checklists and NAM Analysis (1971)
A February 1971 internal Union Carbide letter from an industrial hygienist to the Brownsville Plant enclosing 1970 Threshold Limit Values, an abstract of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and a noise paper, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 18, 1967
D. E. Deese on Sandblasting Hazards and Respirator Recommendations at Gulf Coast Plants (1967)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Gulf Coast industrial hygienist, written after industrial hygiene studies of sandblasting at two Gulf Coast plants. It describes silicosis, states that air-supplied abrasive-blasting hoods can protect operators, and…
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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 · March 6, 1980
R. E. Graebert to Division SHARE Managers on Safety and Health Requirements for Contractors, with Procedure Guideline and Sample Contract Language (1980)
…memo from R. E. Graebert transmitting the final Procedure Guideline on safety and health requirements for contractors working at Union Carbide chemicals and plastics-type facilities. The attachments set out contractor minimum standards, sample safety and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1968
R. E. Joyner, M.D., to Walt Morrison at Seadrift Plant on Asbestos Health Hazards and Dust Controls (1968)
Letter from R. E. Joyner, M.D., to Walt Morrison at the Seadrift Plant, answering questions about asbestos. It describes asbestos as a cause of lung fibrosis, gives a recommended maximum air level, recommends periodic chest x-rays and exams, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Distribution on OSHA Respiratory Protection Requirement for Asbestos Tear-Out (1972)
Memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to a list of Union Carbide recipients reporting OSHA's interpretation of respiratory protection for asbestos tear-out or removal. It states that OSHA's Delbert Flowers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 27, 1976
J. H. Rapp to J. P. Alexander and Others on Coveralls for Insulators, with D. E. Deese Memo on Asbestos Strip Job Monitoring (1976)
Two Texas City memos on asbestos. The first, dated February 27, 1976, from J. H. Rapp to plant personnel, announced that coveralls would be issued to insulators who might be exposed to asbestos fibers above the ceiling level, and gave laundering and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 6, 1980
R. E. Graebert to Division SHARE Managers Transmitting Procedure Guideline on Safety and Health Requirements for Contractors (1980)
A March 6, 1980 internal Union Carbide memo transmits the final Procedure Guideline on safety and health requirements for contractors working at chemicals and plastics-type facilities. The attached guideline sets minimum contractor safety rules, sample…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 21, 1977
R. J. Taylor Teletype on OSHA Inspection of Texas City Plant Locker Room (1977)
Teletype from R. J. Taylor at the Texas City Plant reporting an OSHA compliance officer's March 18 visit to inspect the Building 74 maintenance locker room after an employee complaint about rest breaks. It states the officer found no violations of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 2, 1973
Industrial Hygiene Preliminary Report on Asbestos Exposure During Kaylo-10 Insulation Clean-up at Oxide II, Plant 510, to P. A. Walden and A. W. Boyd (1973)
Preliminary industrial hygiene report on two air samples taken 9-28-73 in the breath zone of a Brown & Root laborer cleaning up Kaylo-10 insulation torn off a flange on the BOU at Oxide II. Reported results were 2.1 and 1.5 fibers/cc >5 microns,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 27, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. R. Guest on Asbestos Dust Monitoring at the Texas City Plant (1972)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which an industrial hygienist sent H. R. Guest the available asbestos dust study data for the Texas City plant. He listed limits on the data and said asbestos was still in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 24, 1972
R. W. Cope Project Report on Industrial Hygiene Survey of Air Analyses at the Bound Brook Plant (1972)
Project report on R. W. Cope's January 27-28, 1972 visit to the Bound Brook Plant to meet New Jersey inspectors and compare dust sampling methods, with air samples taken in several departments. Asbestos fiber samples at Building 3, Unit C ranged…