7 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 8, 1979
L. W. Phair to Plant Staff on Asbestos Insulation Disposal at the South Charleston Plant (1979)
Internal correspondence dated October 8, 1979, from L. W. Phair to ten plant staff members about disposal of asbestos insulation at the South Charleston Plant. It states that asbestos insulation must go in dumpsters taken to Fillmont, not regular…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1972
B. L. Murray to E. O. Harrah on Asbestos Dust Concentrations in Insulation Work, South Charleston Plant (1972)
Internal letter reporting results of personal air monitoring of insulators in the South Charleston Plant maintenance department (Project D-1-72). It states the 8-hour time-weighted average asbestos fiber concentrations were below the permissible…
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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 · 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 · July 14, 1983
Bill Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents Forwarding OSHA Plans Asbestos Exposure Limit Reduction Report (1983)
A one-page Union Carbide South Charleston Plant internal memo transmitting an attached Occupational Safety & Health Reporter article on OSHA's plans to lower the asbestos exposure limit. The attached BNA report (July 7, 1983) states…
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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…