22 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 · June 28, 1985
W. C. Young to Plant Managers Department on Asbestos Exposure Effects and Potential of Non-Insulator Crafts, with Plant 514 Asbestos Dust Measurement Printouts (1985)
Internal memo of June 28, 1985 from the South Charleston Plant to the Managers Department stating that plant asbestos dust measurements were below OSHA limits, but the writer questioned whether any level of inhalation exposure is safe without…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 1, 1987
T. G. Huff to J. F. Dodd and Others, Project Scope Document for Building 303 Demolition, Phase III, South Charleston Plant (1987)
Project scope document for the second-stage demolition of Building 303 at the South Charleston plant, to clear space for truck trailers serving the new Drumming Center. It describes the phased work and the removal of asbestos pipe insulation and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 22, 1985
A. E. Wood to Department Heads on Use of Non-Asbestos Gaskets at South Charleston, with Attached Chemical Resistance Lists and D. J. McNeil Memo (1985)
A. E. Wood's May 22, 1985 memo reported that the GR shop had used non-asbestos pump gasketing since 1983 to decrease exposure to asbestos materials, and that inspected non-asbestos gaskets had been attacked by process chemicals. It set an action…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 1, 1987
T. G. Huff to D. J. McNeil and Others: Project Scope Document for B-303 Transitional Operation/Demolition Phase II, South Charleston Plant (1987)
Project scope document for Building 303 transitional operation and demolition at the South Charleston Plant. It describes temporary drum-handling facilities and the removal and disposal of asbestos-containing transite siding by an abatement…
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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 · August 23, 1987
T. G. Huff to S. W. Drake and Others: Project Scope Document for B-303 Demolition and Transite Siding Removal, South Charleston Plant (1987)
Project scope document for demolishing part of Building 303 at the South Charleston Plant and replacing asbestos-containing transite siding on the Chemical Mixing Unit Slurry Bay with insulated metal panels. It sets out mechanical, electrical and…
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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 · May 22, 1985
A. E. Wood to All Department Heads on Use of Non-Asbestos Gaskets at South Charleston (1985)
Memorandum from A. E. Wood reporting that the GR shop had used non-asbestos gaskets on pump heads since 1983 to decrease asbestos exposure, and that inspected non-asbestos gaskets showed binder attack by process chemicals. It sets out an action plan…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 15, 1985
D. J. McNeil to W. E. Ballard and Others on Use of Asbestos/Non-Asbestos Gasket and Valve Packing Materials at South Charleston (1985)
Memorandum reporting a 5/10/85 meeting on use of asbestos and non-asbestos gasket and valve packing materials at the South Charleston location. It records the earlier effort to discontinue asbestos materials after the health concern, the E&TS…