15 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner to C. U. Dernehl and N. H. Ketcham Forwarding Johns-Manville Safety Precautions for Asbestos Fibres (1969)
Cover letter from R. E. Joyner, M.D. to Dr. Dernehl and Mr. Ketcham forwarding attached letters on asbestos fibre safety precautions and noting he advised Texas City people to contact the company rather than the government. The attachment is a March…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 21, 1971
Compilation: J. W. Rawlings Action Memo on Asbestos Test Program and King City Dust Control (1971), W. N. Johnson Memo on Airborne Asbestos Tests (1972), and B. A. Osby Memo on Institute Plant Landfill (1986)
Compilation of three Union Carbide internal memoranda. The 1971 Rawlings memo sets out action items after a December 17 asbestos meeting: simulated dust-count tests on customer uses, a two-year King City dust-control program…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner to C. U. Dernehl Transmitting Consumer Products Division Memo on Asbestos Fibre Safety Precautions (1969)
…N. H. Ketcham, 31 March 1969, forwarding attached letters Union Carbide Consumer Products Division (Quality & Specifications, Cleveland) memo of March 18, 1969 to plant managers quoting Johns-Manville letter on asbestos fibre safety precautions, signed P…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 20, 1981
M. A. Patel to W. L. Browning and J. W. Perry, Jr. on Asbestos Monitoring in the Gasket Shop, Institute Plant (1981)
Internal memo reporting area and personal asbestos exposure monitoring in the Gasket Shop (laundry, Building 3 of the Construction Department) at the Institute Plant, done by the plant's industrial hygiene group on October 2 and 9, 1981. It states…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 27, 1959
C. P. McClelland to P. G. Magnusson on a Pantasote Company Vinyl Chloride Toxicity Problem (1959)
Letter from C. P. McClelland to P. G. Magnusson, with copies to R. A. Corio and Dr. C. U. Dernehl, forwarding a letter from The Pantasote Company about a toxicity problem it encountered in using vinyl chloride. It said Dr. Dernehl had advised that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 23, 1981
Manhar A. Patel to W. L. Browning and J. W. Perry, Jr. on Correction to Asbestos Monitoring in Gasket Shop, 512 Construction (1981)
A one-page internal memo stating that the writer's October 20, 1981 letter on asbestos monitoring in the Gasket Shop (512 Construction) contained an error caused by misinterpreting data from the 512 Industrial Hygiene group. It asks recipients to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 21, 1964
Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on October 1964 Dust Survey of the King City Mine and Mill (1964)
Internal correspondence reporting McDaniel's October 1964 visit to the King City mine and mill. It describes dust conditions at the mine, review of dust-counting procedures, and air-borne dust sample results in the mill, with the highest count (17.3…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 23, 1981
M. A. Patel to W. L. Browning, J. W. Perry Jr. and Others on Asbestos Monitoring in the Gasket Shop, 512 Construction, Institute Plant, with Replacement Letter and Data Sheet (1981)
Internal Union Carbide correspondence from Manhar A. Patel. A cover note says an October 20, 1981 letter on asbestos monitoring in the Institute Plant gasket shop contained an error and should be replaced. The replacement letter…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 23, 1981
Manhar A. Patel to W. L. Browning and J. W. Perry, Jr. on Asbestos Monitoring in the Institute Plant Gasket Shop (1981)
Internal memo from Manhar A. Patel reporting area and personal asbestos air monitoring in the Construction Department gasket shop at the Institute Plant on October 2 and 9, 1981, with a results table attached. The memo says exposures above the 2…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 14, 1971
Paul W. McDaniel to J. L. Myers on EPA's Expected Listing of Asbestos as a Hazardous Material (1971)
Internal correspondence from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to J. L. Myers of the Mining & Metals Division on toxicology. It discusses the expected listing of asbestos by EPA as a hazardous material, states that asbestos is a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 15, 1973
R. J. Sexton to C. U. Dernehl Transmitting the Asbestos Workers Health Hazard Survey Form (1973)
Internal correspondence from the Institute Plant medical director sending physicians a copy of the 'Asbestos Workers Health Hazard Survey' form (UCC-512-MD-4) that he had developed, following a meeting in New Orleans. The enclosed form has…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 20, 1981
Manhar A. Patel to W. L. Browning and J. W. Perry, Jr. on Asbestos Monitoring in the Gasket Shop, Institute Plant (1981)
Internal Union Carbide memo transmitting results of area and personal asbestos air monitoring in the Construction Department gasket shop at the Institute Plant, sampled October 2 and 9, 1981. The memo states that exposure above the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 23, 1981
Manhar A. Patel to W. L. Browning and J. W. Perry, Jr. on Asbestos Monitoring in the Gasket Shop, 512 Construction, Institute Plant, with Cover Note and Data Sheet (1981)
A short cover note dated October 23, 1981 tells recipients to replace Patel's October 20, 1981 letter on asbestos monitoring in the Institute Plant gasket shop because of a misinterpretation of industrial hygiene data. The replacement letter reports…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 23, 1963
R. J. Sexton to S. C. Giambruno Transmitting Industrial Hygiene Survey of Insulation Block Dust (Thermobestos, Kaylo, Carey-Temp) at the Construction Insulation Shop (1963)
Internal memo dated 23 October 1963 from Plant Medical Director R. J. Sexton to S. C. Giambruno, transmitting Industrial Hygiene Survey Report 63-IH-3-G-1 on dust from band-sawing "Thermobestos", "Kaylo" and "Carey-Temp" insulation blocks at the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 14, 1967
N. H. Ketchan to G. F. Johnson Transmitting Industrial Hygiene Digest Abstracts on Asbestos and Cancer (1967)
A short cover note dated December 14, 1967 from N. H. Ketchan to Dr. G. F. Johnson encloses abstracts from current literature on carcinogenic properties of inhaled asbestos. The attachments are six pages from the Industrial Hygiene Digest (1966-1967…