35 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 · July 25, 1983
Batson-Cook Company (Hugh L. Cotton) to Union Carbide on Asbestos Dust Tests and News Coverage, Memorial Medical Center, Savannah (1983)
…article by Tom Barton, July 21, 1983, on asbestos added to the floor compound at Memorial Medical Center Letter, Union Carbide Corporation Metals Division to Hugh Cotten, Batson Cook Company, July 20, 1983, about Calidria RG…
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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 · July 15, 1983
John Crane to Roger Wolff: Marked-Up Draft Press Statement on Calidria RG-244 and the Savannah Hospital Incident (1983)
Two copies of a short draft press statement, 'if needed', about a Savannah hospital incident. The statement describes Calidria asbestos RG-244 as a short-fiber chrysotile used where it is embedded in resin. Both copies carry handwritten cross-outs…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to H. B. Rhodes on Asbestos Toxicology and the IRDA Genotoxicity Item (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which the Assistant Corporate Medical Director comments on an IRDA item, "Further Evidence that Asbestos is not Genotoxic." He says the in vitro findings cannot be related to human exposure, that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 15, 1983
R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Thurber on Substituting a Revised Asbestos Label for the OSHA Label (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo from R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Thurber proposing that a different attached label replace the OSHA-mandated asbestos label on UCC asbestos products shipped to U.S. users, subject to OSHA…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to H. B. Rhodes on Asbestos Toxicology and the IRDA Note on Genotoxicity (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Assistant Corporate Medical Director commenting on an IRDA item, "Further Evidence that Asbestos is not Genotoxic." He wrote that the in vitro findings could not be related to human exposure…
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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 · 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 · April 22, 1983
L. A. Crisorio to T. W. Carmody et al. Transmitting Minutes of April 7, 1983 Meeting on the Financial Impact of the Miller Bill (1983)
Internal memo transmitting minutes of an April 7, 1983 ad hoc meeting that reviewed the financial impact on the Metals Division of a proposed Miller Bill to fund compensation for asbestos and other toxic substance claims. The attachments include…
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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 · 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…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 20, 1974
W. C. Thurber to King City Managers Requesting a Plan to Link Personal Dust Monitoring Results to Individual Employees, with Law Department Reply (1974)
A May 20, 1974 cover memo from W. C. Thurber asks recipients to review procedures and find the simplest way to correlate personal monitoring results with particular employees at King City, with a plan by July 1st. It attaches a May 13, 1974 Law…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 21, 1982
R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Kuryla on Asbestos Labeling and Cigarette Smoking (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo following up on an October 20 memorandum. It reports a suggestion that a new asbestos label warn that cancer risk from asbestos exposure is increased by cigarette smoking, summarizes Dr. Selikoff's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 4, 1973
P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison, Jr. Transmitting Fiber Counts from King City Air Samples (1973)
Internal Union Carbide letter marked Confidential, sent from the Medical Department to the King City plant, transmitting a tabulation of fiber counts from air samples collected at King City on November 13 and 14, 1973. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 1974
R. J. Kronkhyte to E. A. Piersall on Major Hazards at the King City Location (1974)
Two-page letter from the safety engineer at the King City, California location listing nine recognized major hazards, with a paragraph on each. The first hazard is breathing asbestos dust; the letter reports monthly air sampling, respirator…