65 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 4
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 9, 1971
R. W. Schwartz Memo Forwarding Minutes of the GE/Hooker/Union Carbide Safety Meeting on Asbestos Handling (1971)
…July 9, 1971 cover memo sent a distribution list the minutes of a June 18, 1971 safety meeting among General Electric, Hooker Chemical and Union Carbide, and pointed readers to the asbestos paragraphs. The minutes, prepared…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1966
Mellon Institute Special Report 29-55: Fibrogenic Potential of Asbestos Products by Intraperitoneal and Intratracheal Injection in Animals, for Union Carbide Chemicals Division (1966)
Confidential Mellon Institute special report on tests of three asbestos fiber products (CMS-100, JT-100 and JM-3K) injected into guinea pigs, rats and rabbits intraperitoneally and into rats intratracheally. It reports granulomas and fibrotic…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 5, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to W. N. Johnson on Gravimetric vs. Fiber-Count Evaluation of Asbestos (1972)
Confidential internal letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to W. N. Johnson of Mining & Metals about using a gravimetric (weight) system to evaluate asbestos. It reports that a brief trial at King City found no…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 15, 1971
P. W. McDaniel and J. L. Myers Report of Call on EPA Office of Air Programs Regarding Calidria Pellets and Asbestos Emission Standards (1971)
Report of a June 1971 meeting between Union Carbide staff and EPA Office of Air Programs personnel (Source Control Branch) to discuss how Calidria pellets and the production system reduce asbestos dust. It records EPA's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 28, 1974
W. C. Thurber to E. A. Piersall: Miscellaneous Notes on King City Management Safety Audit (1974)
Memo dated October 28, 1974 with notes on a management safety audit of the King City plant. It covers general action items, comments from interviews with plant employees (mostly about slippery floors and safety meetings), and a dust sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 21, 1970
Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on Air Sample Particle Counts at the King City Asbestos Mine (1970)
Internal Union Carbide correspondence reporting particle counts from air samples taken at the asbestos mine near King City, at the bulldozer operator, front loader operator and pit floor around the grizzly. The writer stated that the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 17, 1972
W. N. Johnson to P. W. McDaniel and Others on the Test Program for Airborne Asbestos (1972)
Memo summarizing arrangements agreed at a January 12 meeting in Niagara for a program to measure airborne asbestos. The program covered a survey of employee exposure at customers' plants near Bartow, Florida, and laboratory tests at Niagara of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 18, 1970
P. W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on Electron Micrographs of King City Plant Dust Samples (1970), with May 1972 King City Dust Count Data and F. H. Larrison Jr. Cover Memo to P. McDaniel
A September 18, 1970 internal letter from Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle at King City discusses electron micrographs and a laboratory report on airborne dust samples from the King City plant, including a respirator filter test. It is followed by a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 10, 1971
J. W. Rawlings to E. Epremian and Others on Preparing an Asbestos Safety and Control Information Package for Customers (1971)
Memorandum from J. W. Rawlings asking seven recipients to draft assigned sections of an educational document on asbestos safety and control for customers, with drafts due September 27. The attached outline lists the proposed sections (introduction,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 6, 1972
P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison on Dust Counts of Air Samples Collected at King City (1972)
Internal Union Carbide letter marked CONFIDENTIAL from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to the King City mill, reporting airborne fiber counts from samples taken October 18-19, 1972. It compares 25 mm and 47…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 15, 1976
Internal Memo to J. J. Franscell on the King City Safety Audit of August 25-26, 1976 (1976)
Internal Union Carbide Metals Division memo reporting on a safety audit of the King City operation conducted August 25-26, 1976. It rated the safety program as very good and offered suggestions on dust control at…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 23, 1974
E. A. Piersall to Larrison, McDaniel, Reichard, Thurber and Welsh on Asbestos Dust Sampling and Record Keeping, with L. Larrison's June 26, 1974 Reply on King City Sampling Program (1974)
Exhibit UC-1554 contains an August 23, 1974 internal memo from E. A. Piersall (Grand Junction) saying no conclusion had been reached on his proposed asbestos dust sampling and record keeping program for King City and suggesting a discussion during…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 4, 1972
John L. Myers to P. W. McDaniel on Air Sampling for Asbestos Fibers (1972)
Internal memo reporting on a November 16 (1972) Los Angeles symposium on asbestos and related diseases sponsored by the Southern California section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. Myers relayed NIOSH advice on collecting asbestos air…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 3, 1968
D. S. Kamens to Paul W. McDaniel on Dust Particle Counts at the King City Bagging Area and Other Locations (1968)
Internal correspondence dated January 3, 1968, from D. S. Kamens at King City to the Medical Department in New York, enclosing dust particle counts taken December 29, 1967. It states that the bagging area had been enclosed and made a no smoking or…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 30, 1974
E. C. Madlangbayan to Paul W. McDaniel on Personal Air Samples at the King City Plant, December (1974)
Internal memo from the King City quality control supervisor to the Medical Department in New York reporting personal air sampling results for six plant workers in December 1974. The cover page gives time-weighted averages by job classification.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 17, 1969
Gabe Acosta to Paul W. McDaniel Transmitting King City Plant Dust Particle Counts (1969)
A one-paragraph internal letter from Gabe Acosta at King City to Paul W. McDaniel in New York enclosing dust particle counts taken September 10 and 11, 1969, on swing shift. The attached sample sheets list 18 samples by plant area (palletizing,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 13, 1968
J. A. Riddle to P. W. McDaniel on Dust Count Results and Dust Control Measures at the King City Plant (1968)
Internal Union Carbide letter from J. A. Riddle to Dr. P. W. McDaniel of the Medical Department about dust count results taken by Kamens at the King City plant. It says the counts were generally within…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1982
H. B. Rhodes to D. L. Haywood on Reporting Health and Safety Studies to EPA under TSCA Section 8(d), with Attached Mellon Institute Covers and King City Sputum Cytology Papers (1982)
Internal Metals Division memo from H. B. Rhodes listing the items the division had identified as potentially reportable under TSCA Section 8(d): two Mellon Institute asbestos reports, King City mill sputum cytology summaries, and a deposition by Dr.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 25, 1973
Air Sample Results from the King City Mill for Paul McDaniel, Medical Dept. (October 1973)
Internal correspondence from the Mining and Metals Division at King City, California, to Paul McDaniel of the Medical Dept. in New York, with copies to F. H. Larrison, Jr., R. J. Kronkhyte and W. C. Thurber. It lists nine air samples taken in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 20, 1973
F. H. Larrison Jr. to Paul McDaniel Transmitting July 1973 King City Dust Counts, with Handwritten Note to "Bill" (1973)
A three-page set: a handwritten note dated 9-20-73 to "Bill", a July 20, 1973 internal memo from F. H. Larrison Jr. at King City to Paul McDaniel in the New York Medical Department enclosing July 1973 dust particle counts, and a data sheet of dust…