18 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 25, 1983
Batson-Cook Company (Hugh L. Cotton) to Union Carbide on Asbestos Dust Tests and News Coverage, Memorial Medical Center, Savannah (1983)
…article by Tom Barton, July 21, 1983, on asbestos added to the floor compound at Memorial Medical Center Letter, Union Carbide Corporation Metals Division to Hugh Cotten, Batson Cook Company, July 20, 1983, about Calidria RG…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to H. B. Rhodes on Asbestos Toxicology and the IRDA Genotoxicity Item (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which the Assistant Corporate Medical Director comments on an IRDA item, "Further Evidence that Asbestos is not Genotoxic." He says the in vitro findings cannot be related to human exposure, that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 13, 1980
Harrison B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers on EPA Information Gathering Orders Under TSCA Sections 8(a) and 8(d) (1980)
…It states that the AIA/NA would make no substantive response to the 8(d) proposal, that the author planned no Union Carbide action, and that no commitments would be made without approval from UCC management.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to H. B. Rhodes on Asbestos Toxicology and the IRDA Note on Genotoxicity (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Assistant Corporate Medical Director commenting on an IRDA item, "Further Evidence that Asbestos is not Genotoxic." He wrote that the in vitro findings could not be related to human exposure…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1977
H. B. Rhodes to W. C. Thurber Transmitting Draft SPE Paper on Consumer Safety in Asbestos-Containing Plastics (1977)
…fiber concentrations in tape-joint compound use, including Rohl data, Union Carbide commercial survey, and OSHA compliance data Table V and further data tables on fiber concentrations during wet-out, cleanup and consumer installations (some OCR…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1982
H. B. Rhodes to D. L. Haywood on Reporting Health and Safety Studies to EPA under TSCA Section 8(d), with Attached Mellon Institute Covers and King City Sputum Cytology Papers (1982)
Internal Metals Division memo from H. B. Rhodes listing the items the division had identified as potentially reportable under TSCA Section 8(d): two Mellon Institute asbestos reports, King City mill sputum cytology summaries, and a deposition by Dr.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 22, 1983
L. A. Crisorio to T. W. Carmody et al. Transmitting Minutes of April 7, 1983 Meeting on the Financial Impact of the Miller Bill (1983)
Internal memo transmitting minutes of an April 7, 1983 ad hoc meeting that reviewed the financial impact on the Metals Division of a proposed Miller Bill to fund compensation for asbestos and other toxic substance claims. The attachments include…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 21, 1982
R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Kuryla on Asbestos Labeling and Cigarette Smoking (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo following up on an October 20 memorandum. It reports a suggestion that a new asbestos label warn that cancer risk from asbestos exposure is increased by cigarette smoking, summarizes Dr. Selikoff's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 6, 1975
F. S. Stanwyck to G. Bailie, J. H. Bees, T. Thomas and T. W. Carmody Forwarding Dow Paper on Asbestos in Caustic Soda (1975)
Union Carbide internal memo, F. S. Stanwyck to G. Bailie, J. H. Bees, T. Thomas and T. W. Carmody, forwarding the Dow paper (Feb. 6, 1975) Letter from Donald G. Barkett, The Dow Chemical Company, to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 2, 1984
T. Guy Fortney, M.D. to J. L. Myers on the May 1984 King City Site Visit and Medical Program Recommendations (1984)
Internal correspondence from Union Carbide's western regional medical director to the King City plant manager following a site visit, praising the medical program and enclosing recommendations. The enclosures review the results of the 1982 recommendations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 8, 1979
Harrison B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers on the AIA/NA Response to EPA's Notice on Asbestos-Containing Materials in Schools (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo transmitting the AIA/NA response to EPA's Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on asbestos-containing materials in schools, which the memo says was largely developed by the law firm Kirkland and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 16, 1982
H. B. Rhodes to N. B. Haubold on the 1982 Industrial Hygiene Sampling Program for Plateau Mining Operations (1982)
Cover memo from H. B. Rhodes transmitting the revised 1982 Industrial Hygiene Sampling Program for Plateau Mining Operations, followed by the program text and tables. The program discusses 1981 respirable dust and silica results at the Plateau…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 21, 1982
R. W. Rebholz to Dr. W. C. Kuryla on Asbestos Labeling and Cigarette Smoking (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo following up on an October 20 memorandum, noting a suggestion that a new asbestos label warn that cancer risk from asbestos exposure is increased by cigarette smoking. It summarizes Dr. Selikoff's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 6, 1978
H. B. Rhodes to T. W. Carmody, R. F. X. Fusaro, J. L. Myers and W. C. Thurber on the AIA/NA Response to the OSHA Generic Standard Proposal (1978)
Internal Union Carbide memo from Harrison B. Rhodes forwarding the Asbestos Information Association/North America response to OSHA's proposed generic carcinogen standard. The memo says the aim was to keep AIA/NA in the hearings…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 6, 1984
R. R. Rankin to General Occupational Health Committee Transmitting OSHA Special Emphasis Program for Asbestos, with Handwritten Notes (1984)
Internal Union Carbide memo of September 6, 1984 from R. R. Rankin forwarding OSHA Instruction CPL 2.60A, the revised National Emphasis Program for asbestos inspections. Rankin says the directive requires each OSHA Area Director to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 5, 1978
H. B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers on the N.Y. Academy of Sciences Asbestos Health Hazards Meeting (1978)
Memo from H. B. Rhodes reporting on his attendance at the 'Health Hazards of Asbestos Exposure' portion of the New York Academy of Sciences meeting in June 1978, and at industry meetings held alongside it. He sorted the meeting's key points into…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 29, 1984
H. B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers Enclosing Final Artwork for the Calidria Asbestos Product Label (1984)
…product label was enclosed and that this completed the label revision for the present. The enclosed label (page 2) is headed 'Chrysotile Asbestos, Warning, Cancer Hazard' and carries the Calidria Corporation name and King City address.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Associated Press Clipping 'Asbestos Worker Sues 17 Firms' (Received Stamps for Carmody, Bayes, Browning) with Handwritten Asbestos Mortality Notes on Dr. John J. Welsh Stationery
Page 1 is a rotated newspaper clipping, Associated Press, reporting that a Greenville, S.C. construction worker filed a $2-million suit against 17 asbestos manufacturers, alleging they did not warn him of asbestos hazards. It carries 'RECEIVED'…