16 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1987
T. L. Grittie's Industrial Hygiene Results on Asbestos Air Monitoring at Union Carbide Plant Operations (1987)
Eight one-page "Industrial Hygiene Results" reports dated April 6-7, 1987. Each reports airborne asbestos fiber sampling taken in January and February 1987 during plant tasks, including K-40 operator duties, pipe, reactor and heater de-insulation,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 7, 1987
T. L. Grittie, Industrial Hygiene Results on Asbestos Monitoring During Deinsulation of R-2 Reactor, Silanes (1987)
Industrial hygiene results dated April 7, 1987 for breathing-zone asbestos samples taken February 10, 1987 on insulators removing insulation from reactor R-2 in the Reactor Area of Silanes inside a negative pressure enclosure. The two samples…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1984
C. A. Gorrell to Maintenance First Line Supervisors on Mandatory Asbestos Hazard Training, with Sistersville Plant Asbestos Script, Slides and MSA Respirator Statement (1984)
A November 29, 1984 memo from C. A. Gorrell told maintenance first-line supervisors that an asbestos hazards program was mandatory and had to be presented to their work groups before January 1, 1985. The exhibit also holds typed and handwritten…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 29, 1986
W. V. Summers to D. Liebeskind on the Sistersville Asbestos Insulation Upgrade Project (1986)
Memo dated October 29, 1986 from W. V. Summers at the Sistersville, WV plant to D. Liebeskind, with copies to six others, giving comments on the plant's asbestos insulation upgrade project. It describes damaged installed asbestos insulation as the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 26, 1986
T. L. Grittie to R. E. Crum and Others on Results of Asbestos Analysis of Lint from Vogue-Swift Washing Machines (1986)
…results of the lint analysis (Feb. 26, 1986), with handwritten note Kemron Environmental Services fiber identification qualitative analysis form for Union Carbide, sample 5610696 (scanned upside down) Borg-Warner inter-office correspondence dated Feb. 12, 1986…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 25, 1986
L. G. Moody to J. F. Dodd, W. V. Summers and G. W. Wulfert Transmitting Draft Outline of Project for Sistersville Plant Insulation Upgrade (1986)
A cover memo from L. G. Moody transmits a draft Outline of Project (dated June 23, 1986) for upgrading insulation at the Sistersville, WV plant, with an estimated cost of $1,500,000 capital and $600,000 expense over three years. The outline states…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1987
T. L. Grittie Industrial Hygiene Results on Glove Bag Asbestos Insulation Removal and Transite Roof Removal (1987)
Two Industrial Hygiene Results reports dated April 6, 1987. The first reports airborne fiber sampling of insulators removing asbestos insulation by the glove bag technique at the SSP Unit, K-36, and recommends closer scrutiny of the method. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1987
T. L. Grittie, Industrial Hygiene Results: Asbestos Exposure Monitoring of Pipefitter, Insulators and Operators (1987)
Five one-page 'Industrial Hygiene Results' reports, each dated April 6, 1987, giving airborne asbestos fiber results from January and February 1987 sampling. The sampled jobs were removal of an asbestos gasket, glove-bag removal of asbestos from a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 11, 1988
K. B. Purinton to W. C. Nycz on Three Year Plant Insulation Upgrade Program, Sistersville (1988)
Memo from K. B. Purinton at the Sistersville, WV plant setting out criteria for insulation to be included in a three-year plant insulation upgrade program, including asbestos insulation in areas of high mechanical disturbance. It states that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 18, 1986
T. L. Grittie to D. A. Boggs and Others on McCrone Analysis of Jaxsan Insulation Samples at Sistersville (1986)
Memo from T. L. Grittie transmitting McCrone Environmental Services' analysis of five Jaxsan insulation samples from the Sistersville plant. The memo reports 7-15% chrysotile asbestos, higher than the supplier had stated, and says the material…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 18, 1986
T. L. Grittie to D. A. Boggs and Others on McCrone Analysis of Jaxsan Insulation Samples for Asbestos (1986)
Memo from the Sistersville plant industrial hygienist transmitting McCrone Environmental Services' analysis of five Jaxsan samples. It reports 7-15% chrysotile, higher than the supplier indicated, says the IH group will monitor insulators during…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1986
W. V. Summers to A. Walker on Grafoil Gasket Usage and Asbestos Gaskets at Sistersville, Responding to a W. A. Bagot Letter (1986)
Memo from W. V. Summers to A. Walker replying to a letter from W. A. Bagot about replacing asbestos gaskets with Grafoil gaskets at the Sistersville location. It says Grafoil was used in selected applications, that there was no wholesale effort to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 6, 1987
W. V. Summers to D. G. Beddow, K. F. Carroll and L. W. Phair on Asbestos Removal Strategy at the Sistersville Plant (1987)
Memo from W. V. Summers transmitting a brief on the Sistersville plant's strategy and resources for meeting newly required OSHA asbestos handling guidelines, with cost estimates for materials and personnel. Attached is a draft procedure for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1987
T. L. Grittie Industrial Hygiene Reports on Insulator Asbestos Exposure Monitoring at Monomers and Polymers II (1987)
Two industrial hygiene reports dated June 30, 1987 on airborne asbestos fiber sampling of insulators. The first covers patching insulation on a T-3 methyl chloride tank in Monomers (3/26/87 samples, all below the PEL); the second covers removing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 1, 1987
T. L. Grittie Industrial Hygiene Results on Asbestos Monitoring of Insulators (Tank Farm 4) and the Poly I Control Room (1987)
Two industrial hygiene result sheets dated July 1, 1987, reporting asbestos air sampling done in April 1987. Page 1 covers insulators using glove bags to strip T-111 in Tank Farm 4 in Silanes, and page 2 covers the Poly I control room, where…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 18, 1984
George W. Wulfery to W. V. Summers on Sistersville Plant Guidelines for Maintaining and Removing Asbestos Insulation (1984)
The exhibit holds a typed draft and a handwritten revision of a Sistersville Plant statement on asbestos insulation, followed by the final dated memo of July 18, 1984. The memo states that the plant would not remove installed asbestos insulation…