120 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 6
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 22, 1971
Union Carbide Call Report on Chevron Asphalt (Emeryville, Calif.) Interest in Calidria Asbestos (1971)
A Union Carbide call report dated 2/22/71 on an interview with W. J. Kari, Tech. Coordinator West, of Chevron Asphalt in Emeryville, California. The stated objective was to determine the potential for Calidria asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 12, 1975
R. J. Klotzbach to W. C. Thurber Transmitting Answers to Supplemental Interrogatories 5 and 8 in Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide (1975)
Cover memo from Klotzbach to Thurber transmitting answers to questions 5 and 8 in Roderman v. Union Carbide Answer to Question 5: Technology Department history, functions, quality assurance and safety responsibilities Answer to Question 8: asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 12, 1975
R. J. Klotzbach to W. C. Thurber Forwarding Answers to Supplemental Interrogatory Questions 5 and 8, Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide (1975)
…questions 5 and 8 prepared as background for supplemental interrogatories in Roderman et al. v. Union Carbide Corporation et al. The cover memo gives the timeline of asbestos claims, process and product development and first shipments…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Georgia-Pacific Purchase Orders, Bills of Lading, Invoices and Receiving Records for Calidria Asbestos Shipments from Union Carbide (1972-1977)
…carloads of SG-210 Calidria asbestos, Akron, New York Georgia-Pacific partial receiving report 1972 Chicago-area shipping and billing papers: Union Carbide packing lists and invoices, Motor Express freight bills, a Georgia-Pacific purchase order…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 20, 1967
San Francisco Chronicle Clipping 'Asbestos Linked To Lung Cancer' with Union Carbide Distribution Stamp and Handwritten Note (1967)
…Medical Association by Drs. Selikoff and Hammond on lung cancer among asbestos construction workers who smoke. The clipping carries a Union Carbide distribution list with check marks and initials, underlining of passages, and a handwritten note…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1974
Cal-OSHA Citation to Union Carbide's King City Asbestos Mill and R. O. Marsten's Memo on the Inspection (1974)
California Division of Industrial Safety citation (12/9/74) to the Union Carbide asbestos mill, with a handwritten routing note at top Page with a rotated handwritten note and a 'RECEIVED' stamp; otherwise blank R. O…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 9, 1971
L. P. Twichell to J. F. Emerson and F. H. Larrison, Jr. on RG-244 Expansion (1971)
Memorandum confirming recent conversations about expanding RG-244 operations. It called for moving from three shifts, five days to three shifts, seven days, proceeding with a Phase I facility expansion from 700 tpy to 1,000 tpy, and plant tests on a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 14, 1970
T. P. Norris Call Reports on Mosinee Paper Mills and Employers Insurance of Wausau Concerning Asbestos Evaluation (1970)
Two Union Carbide reports of call by T. P. Norris. The first, dated 10/14/70, records a meeting with Mosinee Paper Mills and Employers Insurance of Wausau about asbestos use and asbestosis claims. The second…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 19, 1975
J. E. Walsh Call Report on Georgia Pacific, Quanah, Texas (1975)
Call report by J. E. Walsh on a visit to Georgia Pacific's Quanah, Texas plant, a maker of joint cements and sprays and a user of SG-210 by the carload. It records a customer question about what to tell contractors regarding asbestos and sandings,…
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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 · July 9, 1976
John L. Myers to W. C. Thurber on Packaging and Transportation Problems with Asbestos Dust (1976)
Internal memo from John L. Myers of the Calidria Asbestos department to W. C. Thurber, with copies to several others, about customer complaints on dusty asbestos packaging and shipping. Myers recommended shrink-wrapping all bagged products, bag…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 12, 1973
W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt on Implementation of Tuck-In Sleeve Packaging for Asbestos Bags (1973)
Internal memo from W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt saying the present asbestos bags let small quantities of material dribble from the fill hole, creating dust and clean-up problems in customers' plants. It reports preliminary work on tuck-in sleeves and…
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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 7, 1973
Internal Correspondence to F. H. Larrison on Airborne Fiber Measurements at the King City Mill and Mine, July 23-24, 1973 (1973)
Internal Union Carbide letter-memo to F. H. Larrison reporting airborne fiber counts (fibers 5 microns and longer per ml of air) from personal and general-area samples at the King City mill and mine on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 27, 1974
Table of U.S. Asbestos Producers by Mine, Fiber Type and Estimated Annual Production (1974)
…fiber type, grade groups and remarks. It lists Union Carbide's Joe No. 5 Mine in San Benito Co., California at 20,000 tons of chrysotile and cites a 1973 Mineral Resources Branch publication (Ottawa) as…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 23, 1974
W. C. Thurber to Distribution on Current Status of Plans for Expanding the King City Asbestos Plant, with Attached Earlier Memos (1974)
A December 23, 1974 memo updating a June 19, 1974 memo on plans to expand the King City asbestos plant to 60,000 T/yr. It reports cost estimates, two financial cases, land acquisition efforts for tailings disposal, and a decision to defer…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 7, 1975
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and J. L. Myers on Packaging SG-103 for Kentile in 100 lb. Polyethylene Bags (1975)
Short memo in which W. C. Thurber stated his understanding that SG-103 for Kentile was planned to be packed in 50 lb. Valeron cross-layered plastic bags and called that packaging very costly. He asked whether, if the pellet cooler were working, a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 29, 1974
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and Others on Housekeeping Test in the King City Bagging Area to Meet OSHA Fiber Limit (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber stating that OSHA regulations require the dust level at the King City operation to be below two fibers per cc after July 1, 1976, and that recent dust counts showed the main circuit bagging area as the principal problem. He…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 14, 1974
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison and Others Confirming RG-244 Packaging Changes (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber confirming discussions of January 11, 1974 on packaging of RG-244. It says cardboard shrouds will be dropped once inventory is used up and that 3-ply bags will give way to slightly larger two-ply bags. It also covers gluing…