18 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner to C. U. Dernehl and N. H. Ketcham Forwarding Johns-Manville Safety Precautions for Asbestos Fibres (1969)
Cover letter from R. E. Joyner, M.D. to Dr. Dernehl and Mr. Ketcham forwarding attached letters on asbestos fibre safety precautions and noting he advised Texas City people to contact the company rather than the government. The attachment is a March…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1968
R. E. Joyner, M.D., to Walt Morrison (Seadrift Plant) on the Health Hazard of Asbestos (1968)
Internal Union Carbide letter from Dr. R. E. Joyner to Walt Morrison at the Seadrift Plant, replying to questions about asbestos. It describes the health hazard question, a recommended maximum airborne level, medical follow-up, respirator…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner, M.D., to J. E. Finch and Others on Safety Precautions for Asbestos Fibers (1969)
Memo from Dr. R. E. Joyner at Texas City to five recipients about a recent letter from P. G. Bonin of Consumer Products Division on the hazard of asbestos fibers. Joyner said he did not disagree with the letter except that further sampling and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner to C. U. Dernehl Transmitting Consumer Products Division Memo on Asbestos Fibre Safety Precautions (1969)
…N. H. Ketcham, 31 March 1969, forwarding attached letters Union Carbide Consumer Products Division (Quality & Specifications, Cleveland) memo of March 18, 1969 to plant managers quoting Johns-Manville letter on asbestos fibre safety precautions, signed P…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Changing at Texas City (1979)
Internal memo from an industrial hygienist reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's October 16, 1979 visit to the Texas City plant to investigate potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges. It describes an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Change at Texas City (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo from an industrial hygienist at Texas City reporting an October 16, 1979 OSHA visit on potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges at the loading rack. It describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 7, 1979
J. C. Ledvina to J. H. Barrett and Others on an OSHA Visit to the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting a visit by two OSHA representatives to the Texas City plant to discuss ethylene production and ethylene oxide use. It lists nine points from the discussion, including OSHA's interest in brain tumors among plant workers, a…
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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 · January 19, 1972
R. E. Joyner, M.D. to R. J. Taylor on the Proposed OSHA Asbestos Dust Standard and Warning Signs (1972)
Internal correspondence in which Dr. Joyner commented on the OSHA notice of proposed rules on asbestos dust exposure published in the Federal Register on January 12, 1972. He called the proposals mostly realistic and desirable but objected to the…
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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 · 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 · 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 · February 1, 1980
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Mercury and Vinyl Chloride Complaint at Texas City (1980)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's January 29, 1980 investigation at the Texas City plant of an alleged employee complaint about mercury exposure in Bldg. 137 and vinyl chloride exposure around Bldg…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner, M.D. to J. E. Finch and Others on Safety Precautions for Asbestos Fibers (1969)
A one-page memo from Dr. R. E. Joyner to five Texas City recipients, referring to a recent letter from P. G. Bonin of the Consumer Products Division about the hazard of asbestos fibers. Joyner said he agreed with the letter except that further…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1968
R. E. Joyner, M.D. to Walt Morrison (Seadrift Plant) on Asbestos Health Hazard, Exposure Limit and Respirators (1968)
Internal correspondence from Dr. R. E. Joyner to Walt Morrison at the Seadrift Plant responding to questions about asbestos. It states that asbestos can cause lung fibrosis, gives a recommended maximum airborne level and medical follow-up for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 9, 1979
Harvey R. Schulz to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Complaint Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's September 28, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant to investigate an employee complaint about road dust north of the #3 Olefins furnaces. It describes the meeting and tour, the plant's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 29, 1971
R. E. Joyner to Distribution on Emergency OSHA Standards for Exposure to Asbestos Dust (1971)
Internal letter from the Gulf Coast Area Medical Director to a distribution list, dated 29 December 1971. It summarizes the emergency standard for exposure to asbestos dust that the Assistant Secretary of Labor published in the Federal Register on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 29, 1971
R. E. Joyner, M.D. to Gulf Coast Distribution on Emergency Standards for Exposure to Asbestos Dust (1971)
Internal letter from the Gulf Coast Area medical director to a distribution list of managers, summarizing the emergency standard for asbestos dust exposure published under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 in the Federal Register of…