21 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 22, 1969
Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Memos on the Asbestos Flooring and Paper Markets, with King City Calidria 1969 Budget Pages (1969)
Compilation of two 1969 internal Union Carbide memos and five pages of King City Calidria budget schedules dated 12-16-68. The first memo reviews competitors supplying asbestos to the flooring industry (Johns-Manville, Philip Carey…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1969
F. D. Dexter to L. P. Jehle, E. A. Barr and R. D. Bower on Divesting the Calidria Asbestos Business (1969)
…in which F. D. Dexter set out his view that the corporation's interests would be best served by divesting the Calidria asbestos business. He outlined preliminary steps: make it a separate entity, run it with…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 8, 1968
F. D. Dexter to R. H. Gregory, Jr. Requesting Information on Making the Asbestos Business a Wholly Owned Subsidiary (1968)
Memo marked 'Business-Confidential, Asbestos' in which F. D. Dexter formalized a request to the Law Department and others for information on making the asbestos business a separate, wholly owned subsidiary of UCC. He listed questions on the tax…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1969
F. D. Dexter to L. P. Jehle, E. A. Barr and R. D. Bower on Divesting the Calidria Asbestos Business (1969)
…F. D. Dexter set out his views on the Calidria asbestos business. He wrote that the corporation's interests would be best served by divesting it, outlined preliminary steps (a separate subsidiary, a few incentivized people…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Changing at Texas City (1979)
Internal memo from an industrial hygienist reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's October 16, 1979 visit to the Texas City plant to investigate potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges. It describes an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1985
Kirk E. Martin to S. J. Footer and D. R. Reem on Texas City Plant Asbestos Concerns (1985)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Industrial Hygiene department at Texas City, reporting that asbestos-containing insulation and other materials at the Texas City Plant had become a health and public relations concern. It describes six…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 14, 1968
F. D. Dexter to E. A. Barr and Others Transmitting the Asbestos Workshop Presentation Recommending Divestiture of the Calidria Business (1968)
…1968. It includes an October 14 memo from F. D. Dexter asking permission to send a 'position paper' to Union Carbide's own people, an October 15 cover memo, handwritten notes, and the text of the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Change at Texas City (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo from an industrial hygienist at Texas City reporting an October 16, 1979 OSHA visit on potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges at the loading rack. It describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 7, 1968
R. S. Wishart, Jr. to F. D. Dexter on Possible Sale of the Calidria Asbestos Project to Johns Manville (1968)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that Kenneth Rush had spoken with Mr. Burnett of Johns Manville about the Calidria asbestos project and that Burnett would respond in about three weeks. It relays Rush's advice on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1969
N. J. Setter to F. D. Dexter, W. S. Young and L. P. Jehle on The Asbestos Market in the Flooring Industry (1969)
Internal Union Carbide memo reviewing the asbestos market in vinyl asbestos (VA) and asphalt floor tile, including estimated tonnages by customer and asbestos source, and the competitive position of Coalinga asbestos. It discusses options for increasing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 13, 1985
S. J. Footer to F. S. Provenzano on the Texas City Plant Insulation Repair Program (1985)
Internal memo of August 13, 1985 recommending that the Texas City plant insulation repair project be split into operating facilities and facilities shut down for future demolition, with repair completion targets of one to three years depending on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1985
Kirk E. Martin to S. J. Footer and D. R. Reem on Texas City Plant Asbestos Concerns (1985)
Internal Industrial Hygiene memo about asbestos-containing insulation and other materials at the Texas City Plant. It reports six Notices of Violation from the Galveston County Health Department, possible state fines, and No. 2 Olefins as the top…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1969
N. J. Setter to F. D. Dexter, W. S. Young and L. P. Jehle on The Asbestos Market in the Flooring Industry (1969)
Internal correspondence from the Chemicals and Plastics division in New York on the asbestos market in vinyl-asbestos (VA) and asphalt floor tile. It estimates total asbestos tonnage and Coalinga producers' share, tabulates estimated VA tile…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1979
A. P. Yalcinkaya to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Inspection of the Texas City Plant's Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Building (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's August 17, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant after an employee complaint about resin dust levels and respirator use in Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Bldg…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Distribution on OSHA Respiratory Protection Requirement for Asbestos Tear-Out (1972)
Memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to a list of Union Carbide recipients reporting OSHA's interpretation of respiratory protection for asbestos tear-out or removal. It states that OSHA's Delbert Flowers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 27, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. R. Guest on Asbestos Dust Monitoring at the Texas City Plant (1972)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which an industrial hygienist sent H. R. Guest the available asbestos dust study data for the Texas City plant. He listed limits on the data and said asbestos was still in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 19, 1985
J. F. Schultz, Plant Asbestos Project Memorandum on Asbestos Insulation Repair at the Texas City Plant, with Transmittal to Plant Managers (1985)
…F. Schultz dated July 19, 1985 reporting on a survey of exposed asbestos-suspect insulation at the Union Carbide Texas City Plant. It ranks problem areas by priority with repair cost estimates (grand total 1791.1)…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1985
Kirk E. Martin to S. J. Footer and D. R. Reem on Texas City Plant Asbestos Concerns (1985)
Internal memo from Industrial Hygiene at the Texas City Plant reporting that asbestos-containing insulation and other materials had become a high-priority concern, that the Galveston County Health Department had issued six Notices of Violation, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 9, 1979
Harvey R. Schulz to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Complaint Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's September 28, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant to investigate an employee complaint about road dust north of the #3 Olefins furnaces. It describes the meeting and tour, the plant's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 28, 1972
Industrial Hygiene Asbestos Dust Study of Kaylo Insulation Removal (C. W. Perry) and D. H. Glenn to R. L. Yelton on OSHA Asbestos Compliance (1972)
Pages 1-2 are a handwritten Industrial Hygiene Department asbestos dust study dated 12-8-72. It reports personal and area air sample results (fibers/cc) for two insulators removing Kaylo-20 insulation from a converter in Building 17, with remarks on…