21 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 1972
OSHA Reply to D. E. Deese on Asbestos Monitoring and Medical Exams, with Union Carbide Asbestos Insulation Removal Procedures and F. Williams Memo to R. J. Taylor (1972)
Compilation of four items: an OSHA letter replying to a Union Carbide industrial hygienist about the asbestos monitoring and medical examination requirements of 29 CFR 1910.93a; a Seadrift Plant procedure for removing asbestos insulation; and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 8, 1964
Union Carbide Chemicals Division Correspondence on Hiring a Texas Area Industrial Hygienist (1963-1964)
Internal Chemicals Division correspondence from December 1963 to January 1964 about whether to hire an industrial hygienist for the Texas Texas City, Seadrift and Brownsville plants. It includes N. H. Ketcham's request and attached memorandum, A. P.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 9, 1977
Pfizer (P. Bartels) to D. L. Engle, Union Carbide Texas City, on Asbestos in Talc and OSHA Limits, with Texas City Stores List of Asbestos Items (1977)
…Engle, Texas City, Feb. 9, 1977, on OSHA asbestos standards and asbestos content of Pfizer talcs; page 1 carries handwritten routing notes and received stamps Union Carbide internal correspondence, J. L. Christensen to D. E. Deese…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 29, 1972
Minutes of Meeting on Measuring Employee Asbestos Exposure to Meet the Proposed OSHA Standard, submitted by N. H. Ketcham (1972)
Minutes of a February 29, 1972 meeting of Union Carbide plant and Environmental Health Laboratory personnel to plan measurement of employee asbestos exposure under the proposed OSHA standard. The minutes list five objectives, attach an outline…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 29, 1972
N. H. Ketcham Minutes of Meeting on Measuring Employee Exposure to Asbestos Under the Proposed OSHA Standard (1972)
Minutes of a February 29, 1972 meeting of Union Carbide plant and laboratory staff to plan measurement of employee exposure to asbestos in line with the proposed OSHA standard. The minutes list objectives, agreed air-sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 3, 1972
J. L. DeRoo to H. B. Coons Transmitting Annual Safety Audit Report on the Brownsville Plant (1972)
Internal correspondence dated May 3, 1972 transmitting the report of the second annual safety audit of the Brownsville Plant, conducted February 8-10, 1972. The report covers the plant's 1971 injury and fire experience, progress on 1971…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 10, 1978
Lee Berti to Don Deese on Demolition of Buildings #20 and #21 at the Texas City Plant (1978)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which Lee Berti asked Don Deese at the Texas City Plant what the demolition contractor, Louisiana Chemical, had been told about industrial hygiene concerns of asbestos, dowtherm and nickel for the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1968
R. E. Joyner, M.D., to Walt Morrison at Seadrift Plant on Asbestos Health Hazards and Dust Controls (1968)
Letter from R. E. Joyner, M.D., to Walt Morrison at the Seadrift Plant, answering questions about asbestos. It describes asbestos as a cause of lung fibrosis, gives a recommended maximum air level, recommends periodic chest x-rays and exams, and…
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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 · June 1, 1972
B. L. Murray to D. E. Deese and Others Transmitting the Asbestos Air Sampling Report Form, With a May 1972 Acetaldehyde Unit Dust Survey (1972)
A June 1, 1972 memo from B. L. Murray describing the form used to record general asbestos air sampling results and asking for comments on it. The attached Industrial Hygiene Evaluation and Survey sheet reports three fiber-count samples taken May 3,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 14, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. B. Coons and Others on the OSHA Permanent Asbestos Standard (1972)
A June 14, 1972 memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to Texas City managers and a physician. It summarizes 18 requirements of OSHA's first permanent asbestos standard, including exposure limits, monitoring, medical examinations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 18, 1971
John L. DeRoo to H. B. Coons transmitting the Brownsville Plant Safety Audit report (1971)
A one-paragraph internal memo transmitting copies of the report of a safety audit of the Brownsville, Texas plant (Location 526), conducted in January by H. Ritchie and the writer. It thanks the plant staff, particularly Jim Friedel, for their…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1968
R. E. Joyner, M.D. to Walt Morrison (Seadrift Plant) on Asbestos Health Hazard, Exposure Limit and Respirators (1968)
Internal correspondence from Dr. R. E. Joyner to Walt Morrison at the Seadrift Plant responding to questions about asbestos. It states that asbestos can cause lung fibrosis, gives a recommended maximum airborne level and medical follow-up for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 13, 1976
J. L. Christensen to D. E. Deese on Asbestos Material in Stores at the Texas City Plant (1976)
Internal Union Carbide memo from Plant Purchasing at Texas City to D. E. Deese, sent with a list of the asbestos items carried in stores inventory (code number, location, description). It asked what procedures should be…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 10, 1978
Lee Berti to Don Deese on Demolition of Buildings #20 and #21 at the Texas City Plant (1978)
Internal Union Carbide memo from Lee Berti to Don Deese at the Texas City Plant about the demolition of Buildings #20 and #21. Berti asked what the demolition contractors, Louisiana Chemical, had been told about industrial…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 6, 1964
Union Carbide Chemicals Co. Correspondence on Hiring a Texas Area Industrial Hygienist: Ketcham, Moss, Allspach and Coons (1963-1964)
Four internal Union Carbide Chemicals Company letters and memos from December 1963 to January 1964 about a proposal to hire an industrial hygienist for the Texas plants (Texas City, Seadrift, Brownsville). N. H. Ketcham's proposal…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1974
L. G. McMullen Asbestos Dust Study at the Long Mott Gin, Scrap Poly Recovery Department, Plant 510 (1974)
A one-sample Industrial Hygiene Department asbestos dust study form for the Scrap Poly Recovery department, Long Mott Gin, dated 11-22-74. Two slide counts gave 3.74 and 8.29 fibers/cc longer than 5 microns (average 6.02). The form notes the result…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 11, 1955
A. C. Hamstead and L. S. VanDelinder, Final Report on Gasket Materials for Ethylene Oxide-Butanol Process Equipment (1955)
A 1955 final report from the Process Development Laboratory of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Company on gasket materials for ethylene oxide-butanol process equipment. It reported that asbestos gaskets slowly deteriorated in the butanol/ethylene oxide…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 16, 1955
R. K. Wilson to J. C. Malone on the Scope of the Ethylene Oxide Protective Program at the Institute Plant (1955)
Internal letter-memo describing a five-part protective program for ethylene oxide units at the Institute, West Virginia plant. The program covered eliminating asbestos (chiefly gaskets) from contact with ethylene oxide, cleaning equipment,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 12, 1974
L. G. McMullen, Industrial Hygiene Asbestos Dust Study of Long Mott Gin, Scrap Poly Recovery, Plant 510 (1974)
Industrial Hygiene Department asbestos dust study form for an air sample taken 11-12-74 inside the Long Mott Gin, Scrap Poly Recovery department, Plant 510, while a hopper van was being dried. Two slide counts gave 0.43 and 0.53 fibers/cc greater…