37 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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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 · January 26, 1973
D. E. Furlani Trip Report on Inspection of Shrink-Wrapped Asbestos Pallets Shipped to Georgia-Pacific, Akron, New York (1973)
Report No. 73-T-7 on a January 18, 1973 trip to the Georgia-Pacific plant in Akron, New York, to inspect a rail shipment of SG-210 asbestos on pallets, two of which were shrink-wrapped at King City. It describes the condition of each pallet,…
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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 · October 20, 1976
J. E. Walsh Call Report on Celanese Plastics (Bishop, Texas) RG144 Packaging Complaints, with R. O. Marsten's Visit Memo (1976)
A customer call report (pp. 1-2) by salesman J. E. Walsh on an October 20, 1976 visit to Celanese Plastics in Bishop, Texas, about torn bags and loose fiber on RG144 asbestos shipments and the customer's air sampling during truck unloading. It is…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 27, 1973
R. E. Byrne, Jr. Informal Report on TiO2 Contamination of RG-244 During the T-135 Plant Run (1973)
Informal report describing TiO2 contamination found in RG-244 asbestos produced during the August 15-22, 1973 T-135 plant run at King City. It reports TiO2 levels up to almost 3%, no correlation between TiO2 content and thickening efficiency, sales…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 6, 1973
B. L. Ingalls Project Report on Shrink-Wrap Packaging Tests for Calidria Bags and Pallets (1973)
…tests, with Tables I and II, cost information and conclusions Union Carbide Films-Packaging Division sheet on pallet wrapping for outdoor storage, with outdoor exposure test charts Sample cost calculations for bag and pallet shrink-film
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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 · April 29, 1980
P. R. Sherman Design Memorandum on Asbestos Bagging Improvement at King City (1980)
Design memorandum (Design Memo No. 1, Revision No. 0, File No. 11217) by P. R. Sherman on improving the bagging of asbestos shipments at King City, CA. It describes efforts to develop a dust-free bag with a better bag wrap and a bag closure system…
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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 · June 1, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to J. L. Myers on Asbestos Dust Exposure Study at American Biltrite, Los Angeles (1972)
Internal Union Carbide letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer reporting a May 24, 1972 air-sampling study at American Biltrite Co., Los Angeles, of asbestos dust exposure in vinyl floor tile production. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 19, 1973
G. L. Dickson to J. L. Myers on Evaluation of the King City RG-244 Production Facility, with Attached Report (1973)
Internal memo from G. L. Dickson to J. L. Myers, with an attached report, summarizing a three-week visit to the King City plant in August 1973. It concluded that only a 5-10% increase in RG-244 production was possible from present facilities and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 19, 1973
J. E. Walsh Report of Call to Bridgeport Chemical (Paul Meli) on Calidria 244 in Epoxy Repair Kits and Asbestos Publicity (1973)
Report of a call on Bridgeport Chemical, a maker of epoxy resin-hardener repair kits in Pompano Beach, Florida, with Executive Vice President Paul Meli. The report says Meli was concerned about newspaper articles on asbestos and that the writer…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 15, 1971
F. H. Larrison, Jr. to J. F. Emerson on Federal and State Inspection of Airborne Asbestos Dust at the King City Mill (1971)
Letter reporting an inspection of the King City facility for airborne asbestos dust by three Federal Bureau of Mines inspectors and two California Division of Industrial Safety inspectors on October 5, 1971. It describes the sampling done, the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 2, 1973
P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison Transmitting Airborne Fiber Survey Results for the King City Mill (1973)
Internal letter, marked Confidential, from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to the King City plant, transmitting a survey of airborne fiber (5.0 microns or longer) taken March 20-21, 1973. It gave estimated weighted exposures for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 21, 1973
G. L. Dickson to R. O. Marsten on Sodium Silicate Usage in King City RG-244 Production (1973)
Internal memo from G. L. Dickson to R. O. Marsten at King City comparing the amount of sodium silicate used in producing RG-244 with the theoretical requirement. The attached Table I lists monthly RG-244 production, sodium silicate usage and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 23, 1981
Safety Audit Team (R. L. Folkman, E. A. Piersall, H. B. Rhodes) to R. J. Kronkhyte, J. L. Myers and R. O. Marsten on the King City Safety/Health Audit (1981)
Internal memo from the Metals Division Safety department reporting the conclusions of its October 26-27, 1981 safety/health audit of the King City plant. It reviews follow-up items from the prior audit, rates the safety program elements, and notes…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1978
Harrison B. Rhodes to E. A. Piersall Transmitting J-M Letter on EPA Regulation of Taconite Tailings as Asbestos (1978)
Union Carbide internal memo, Rhodes to Piersall, Oct. 31, 1978, on regulation of taconite tailings as asbestos Johns-Manville Sales Corporation letter, R. P. Carter to J. Padgett, EPA, Oct. 9, 1978, objecting to EPA taconite…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 12, 1972
W. N. Johnson to F. H. Larrison and E. A. Piersall Forwarding AIA/NA Memos on the FDA Asbestos Task Force and the Bureau of Mines Asbestos Dust Standard (1972)
A one-line cover note from W. N. Johnson, dated December 12, 1972, sends two Asbestos Information Association/North America (AIA/NA) letters to F. H. Larrison and E. A. Piersall. The first letter (Nov. 27, 1972) reports a meeting with FDA staff…