41 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 3
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 12, 1975
R. J. Klotzbach to W. C. Thurber Transmitting Answers to Supplemental Interrogatories 5 and 8 in Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide (1975)
Cover memo from Klotzbach to Thurber transmitting answers to questions 5 and 8 in Roderman v. Union Carbide Answer to Question 5: Technology Department history, functions, quality assurance and safety responsibilities Answer to Question 8: asbestos…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 12, 1975
R. J. Klotzbach to W. C. Thurber Forwarding Answers to Supplemental Interrogatory Questions 5 and 8, Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide (1975)
…questions 5 and 8 prepared as background for supplemental interrogatories in Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide Corporation et al. The cover memo gives the timeline of asbestos claims, process and product development and first shipments…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1981
King City Audit: 1981 Safety and Health Audit Report on the King City Plant, Union Carbide Metals Division (1981)
Report of a 1981 safety and health audit of the King City plant. It reviews the health program, physical examinations, industrial hygiene sampling for asbestos, radiation and noise, employee protection, emergency procedures and governmental…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1974
Cal-OSHA Citation to Union Carbide's King City Asbestos Mill and R. O. Marsten's Memo on the Inspection (1974)
California Division of Industrial Safety citation (12/9/74) to the Union Carbide asbestos mill, with a handwritten routing note at top Page with a rotated handwritten note and a 'RECEIVED' stamp; otherwise blank R. O…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 10, 1969
R. L. Folkman to J. C. Stephenson Transmitting H. F. Reichard's Summary of UCC Asbestos Market Patterns (1969)
A confidential memorandum from R. L. Folkman to J. C. Stephenson forwarding a summary by Hal Reichard of the asbestos market, with commentary on possible ways of marketing the product line. The attached two-page table, 'UCC Asbestos Market…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1972
R. O. Marsten, Environmental Impact Process Survey Forms for the King City Mine (1972)
Ten pages of handwritten environmental protection/process survey forms for the Mine at the King City plant, dated December 1972. They cover storage tanks, noise emissions, air emissions (including asbestos dust from screening and haul roads,…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 6, 1980
P. R. Sherman and R. O. Marsten Trip Report on Asbestos Bagging Improvement at Bound Brook and Union Camp (1980)
…NJ, and Union Camp's Lyndhurst plant. It describes why the Union Camp accumulator/loader was judged unsuitable for a dust-proof overwrap of asbestos bags at King City. It then lists the agreed program of…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 20, 1976
J. E. Walsh Call Report on Celanese Plastics (Bishop, Texas) RG144 Packaging Complaints, with R. O. Marsten's Visit Memo (1976)
A customer call report (pp. 1-2) by salesman J. E. Walsh on an October 20, 1976 visit to Celanese Plastics in Bishop, Texas, about torn bags and loose fiber on RG144 asbestos shipments and the customer's air sampling during truck unloading. It is…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 28, 1976
R. L. Folkman to Dr. H. B. Rhodes Requesting Paragraphs on Asbestos Exposure, with Attached Wall Street Journal Article on NIOSH Recommendation (1976)
Internal correspondence from R. L. Folkman to Dr. H. B. Rhodes asking for a couple of paragraphs on the company's marketplace and operations, to be sent to Mr. Kroft regarding the attached item. The attachment is a Wall Street Journal article by…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 27, 1973
R. E. Byrne, Jr. Informal Report on TiO2 Contamination of RG-244 During the T-135 Plant Run (1973)
Informal report describing TiO2 contamination found in RG-244 asbestos produced during the August 15-22, 1973 T-135 plant run at King City. It reports TiO2 levels up to almost 3%, no correlation between TiO2 content and thickening efficiency, sales…
-
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…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 6, 1973
B. L. Ingalls Project Report on Shrink-Wrap Packaging Tests for Calidria Bags and Pallets (1973)
…tests, with Tables I and II, cost information and conclusions Union Carbide Films-Packaging Division sheet on pallet wrapping for outdoor storage, with outdoor exposure test charts Sample cost calculations for bag and pallet shrink-film
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 19, 1979
John L. Myers to W. G. Alesio, G. R. Bailey and Others on Strategic Planning for the Calidria Asbestos Business (1979)
Internal memo from John L. Myers responding to a 4/3/79 memorandum from Bob Rebholtz on defining the asbestos business and industry. Myers described the Calidria business as mining, milling and marketing short fiber asbestos, said a single industry…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1981
Weekly Operating Reports from the King City Plant to W. C. Thurber, Metals Division (April-June 1981)
Nine weekly operating reports on Union Carbide internal correspondence forms, sent from the King City, California plant to W. C. Thurber in New York. Each lists production by grade (High Purity, Super Standard, Standard, RG-244…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 29, 1980
P. R. Sherman Design Memorandum on Asbestos Bagging Improvement at King City (1980)
Design memorandum (Design Memo No. 1, Revision No. 0, File No. 11217) by P. R. Sherman on improving the bagging of asbestos shipments at King City, CA. It describes efforts to develop a dust-free bag with a better bag wrap and a bag closure system…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 19, 1973
G. L. Dickson to J. L. Myers on Evaluation of the King City RG-244 Production Facility, with Attached Report (1973)
Internal memo from G. L. Dickson to J. L. Myers, with an attached report, summarizing a three-week visit to the King City plant in August 1973. It concluded that only a 5-10% increase in RG-244 production was possible from present facilities and…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 28, 1980
J. T. Kelly to R. L. Folkman Transmitting the Asbestos Strategy Package for the King City Calidria Business (1980)
A cover memo from J. T. Kelly of Financial Control transmits the latest asbestos strategy package, which assumes an OSHA TLV of no more than 1.0 fiber per cc and estimates the cost of a 0.5 fiber limit at King City. The attached slides cover the…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 19, 1973
J. E. Walsh Report of Call to Bridgeport Chemical (Paul Meli) on Calidria 244 in Epoxy Repair Kits and Asbestos Publicity (1973)
Report of a call on Bridgeport Chemical, a maker of epoxy resin-hardener repair kits in Pompano Beach, Florida, with Executive Vice President Paul Meli. The report says Meli was concerned about newspaper articles on asbestos and that the writer…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 4, 1977
H. B. Rhodes to R. L. Folkman on the NIOSH Asbestos Recommendation and the King City Plant, with Attached Request and Wall Street Journal Article (1977)
Internal letter in which H. B. Rhodes answered R. L. Folkman's December 28, 1976 request for comment on the NIOSH asbestos statement. He summarized the OSHA 1975 proposal and the NIOSH position, said the King City plant was generally meeting the 2…
-
Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 1971
L. F. Crow and R. O. Marsten, Asbestos Operations Report, King City, California, January 1971 (1971)
Monthly operations report for the King City plant for January 1971. It gives sales tonnage against plan by product grade and production tonnage, and covers sales orders, plant operations, workforce reductions, maintenance, safety, and mining…