23 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 19, 1983
W. C. Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents and Department Heads on OSHA Plan to Lower Asbestos Permissible Exposure Limits (1983)
A one-page internal memo from the South Charleston Plant, signed "Bill Young", forwarding to maintenance supervisors an attached article from Occupational Safety & Health Reporter dated April 14, 1983. The subject line is an OSHA plan to lower…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 23, 1985
C. E. Fry to D. D. Templeton Transmitting 1983-1984 Asbestos Monitoring Data, South Charleston Plant 514 (1985)
Internal memo dated January 23, 1985 transmitting all asbestos measurements made in 1983 and 1984 at the South Charleston plant. It explains the blank job-class entries and the 1.00 eight-hour TWA values, and attaches computer printouts of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 17, 1983
J. S. Cornell to C. E. Fry, Dr. R. W. Holland and Others on a Meeting About Asbestos-Related Medical Issues (1983)
Internal correspondence from J. S. Cornell (Safety & Health) calling a March 29 meeting at South Charleston to discuss asbestos-related medical issues. The memo proposed reviewing South Charleston's diagnostic practices, their applicability to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 30, 1983
J. S. Cornell to B. H. Avashia and Others on Asbestos-Related Medical Issues and OSHA 200 Log Recording (1983)
Internal memo from the Safety & Health department summarizing a March 29, 1983 South Charleston meeting on asbestos-related medical issues. It covers chest X-ray review, recording of asbestos-related abnormalities on the OSHA 200 Log, and follow-up…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 9, 1983
J. S. Cornell to H. W. Himes, R. W. Holland and F. M. Plechaty Forwarding Lewinsohn's Asbestos-Related Health Information, with Fleischner Society Symposium Abstracts (1983)
A June 9, 1983 Union Carbide internal memo from J. S. Cornell forwards information provided by Dr. Lewinsohn and asks Fran Plechaty to pass a copy to Dr. Boone. Attached is Lewinsohn's June 7, 1983…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 18, 1983
W. C. Young to E. O. Harrah and J. E. Kidd on Asbestos Exposure Potential in Gasket Cutting Operations, South Charleston Plant (1983)
Internal correspondence dated November 18, 1983, reporting that the writer and Dr. Holland observed gasket-cutting operations in the GR Shop (Bldg. 307) and Sheet Metal Shop (Bldg. 320). It states that asbestos dust exposure potential appeared…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 23, 1985
C. E. Fry to D. D. Templeton on Asbestos Measurements Made in 1983 and 1984 (1985)
One-page internal Union Carbide memo from C. E. Fry to D. D. Templeton, sent with an attachment of the asbestos measurements made in 1983 and 1984. It explains how to read the 'Job Class. Code…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 16, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Stay of OSHA's Emergency Temporary Standard for Asbestos (1983)
A one-page memorandum reporting that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Asbestos Information Association's request to stay OSHA's emergency temporary standard on occupational asbestos exposure. It states that the order bars OSHA from…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 5, 1984
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on Court Ruling Disallowing the OSHA Asbestos Emergency Temporary Standard (1984)
A one-page memorandum from W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson, with copies to others, reproducing a summary from Occupational Safety and Health Reporter. The summary reports that the Fifth Circuit struck down OSHA's emergency asbestos standard. Young…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard at South Charleston, with OSHA Exposure Estimates and Emergency Standard Text (1983)
A December 15, 1983 memorandum from W. C. Young summarizes the points of OSHA's emergency temporary asbestos standard (effective November 4, 1983) that would affect plant operations. For each change (the 0.5 f/cc limit, employee training, respirator…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 9, 1983
J. S. Cornell to H. W. Himes, R. W. Holland and F. M. Plechaty Forwarding Asbestos-Related Health Information, with H. C. Lewinsohn Cover Note and Fleischner Society Abstracts (1983)
A June 9, 1983 Union Carbide internal memo from J. S. Cornell forwards asbestos-related health information supplied by Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn and asks that a copy go to Dr. Boone. Attached are Lewinsohn's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 17, 1983
J. S. Cornell to C. E. Fry and Others on Asbestos-Related Medical Issues, Meeting Notice (1983)
Internal memo, signed by J. S. Cornell, calling a March 29 meeting at South Charleston, West Virginia, of the Silicones & Urethane Intermediates addressees. The meeting was to discuss procedures for diagnosing and reporting asbestos-related…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 9, 1983
J. S. Cornell Transmitting H. C. Lewinsohn's Asbestos Health Information, with Fleischner Society Symposium Abstracts by Gaensler and Sargent (1983)
A June 9, 1983 Union Carbide internal memo from J. S. Cornell forwarded asbestos-related health information supplied by Dr. Lewinsohn, whose June 7, 1983 cover note attached abstracts from the Fleischner Society's Thirteenth Annual…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 24, 1985
W. C. Young to C. R. Gillispie, Industrial Hygiene Survey Report on Asbestos Sampling at the South Charleston Plant (1985)
A one-page industrial hygiene survey report on asbestos sampling at the South Charleston Plant on 10-22-85 and 10-23-85, in Department/Location 327, Construction. It lists handwritten air-sample results for Maintenance Dept. and Construction Dept.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 9, 1982
W. C. Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring at South Charleston Plant (1982)
Internal memo stating that a plant safety procedure requires employee asbestos exposure monitoring on significant jobs handling asbestos-containing insulation. It says OSHA requires supplied-air respirators unless exposure limits are shown not to be…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard (1983)
Memorandum summarizing the points of OSHA's amended emergency temporary asbestos standard, effective November 4, 1983, most likely to affect plant operations. It lists the changes (the permissible exposure limit cut from 2 to 0.5 f/cc, training, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 21, 1979
W. C. Young to J. E. Kidd on Plant Use of Asbestos-Containing Welding Blankets at South Charleston (1979)
Memo from W. C. Young to J. E. Kidd, with copies to eight others including a physician, about the plant's use of asbestos-containing welding blankets. It says the plant Environmental Protection Department endorses substitution as a health hazard…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1986
Asbestos Handling and Asbestos Removal/Disposal Checklists for Insulation Removal Jobs, East Tank Farm and Other Plant Areas (1985-1986)
A set of plant checklist forms recording jobs in which asbestos insulation was removed, mostly in May and June 1986, with a few forms dated May 1985. Each form gives the date, job description, estimated quantity removed, location (for example Area…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 21, 1979
W. C. Young to J. E. Kidd on Plant Use of Asbestos-Containing Welding Blankets, South Charleston Plant (1979)
Memo from the South Charleston Plant Environmental Protection Department about plant stores and local suppliers lacking a suitable alternative to asbestos-containing welding blanket fabrics. It says the plant EPD endorses substitution but would…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 30, 1983
J. S. Cornell to B. H. Avashia, M.D. and Others on Asbestos-Related Medical Issues, with South Charleston Chest Radiograph Protocol (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo summarizing a March 29, 1983 South Charleston meeting on asbestos-related medical issues. It records discussion of chest X-ray review and reporting, the timing of entries on the OSHA 200 Log…