43 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 3
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1987
Union Carbide Asbestos Removal and Phase-Out Papers, Including T. E. Hanning Memo on Contractor Project Development Group (1987)
…Chemicals and Plastics Business Group, use of asbestos-containing materials in the work place Grafoil seminar outline and cover sheet (Union Carbide Specialty Products Group, Cleveland) Grafoil flexible graphite newsletter on special gasketing techniques Distribution list…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 1987
Union Carbide Memos and Draft C&P Program on Phasing Out Asbestos-Containing Materials in Company Workplaces (1986-1987)
Six pages of Union Carbide papers from 1986-1987 on asbestos in the company's own facilities. They include a 9/29/86 draft Chemicals and Plastics (C&P) program to phase out asbestos-containing materials…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1987
Union Carbide Industrial Hygiene Asbestos Monitoring Reports for Silanes, Polymers and Monomers Areas, Prepared by C. R. McMillan and T. L. Grittie (1987)
Twelve pages of industrial hygiene monitoring and results reports dated June and July 1987, covering airborne asbestos sampling taken February to April 1987 around insulation removal, glove bag use and asbestos insulation in Silanes, Polymers and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 7, 1987
T. L. Grittie, Industrial Hygiene Results on Asbestos Monitoring During Deinsulation of R-2 Reactor, Silanes (1987)
Industrial hygiene results dated April 7, 1987 for breathing-zone asbestos samples taken February 10, 1987 on insulators removing insulation from reactor R-2 in the Reactor Area of Silanes inside a negative pressure enclosure. The two samples…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 26, 1983
Thomas A. Lincoln to H. C. Lewinsohn on Proposal to Classify Chest Radiographs of UCC Headquarters Personnel (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo of August 26, 1983 from the Corporate Medical Director to Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn, responding to a proposal to classify chest radiographs of corporate headquarters personnel under the ILO pneumoconiosis classification (revised…
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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 · May 5, 1987
R. S. Newberger and J. K. Kyle Memos on Asbestos Disposal and Ceiling Contamination at the Sistersville, WV Plant (1987)
Two Union Carbide memoranda from the Sistersville, West Virginia plant. The first (May 5, 1987) reports that asbestos insulation was being stripped in the Silanes Department and that the burial location was full. The second (April…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 20, 1984
W. V. Summers, Jr. to A. W. Boyd and Wayne Watkins Transmitting G. W. Wulfert's Guidelines on Asbestos Insulation Repairs and Removal at Sistersville (1984)
A cover memo from W. V. Summers, Jr. dated July 20, 1984 forwards a July 18, 1984 memo from George W. Wulfert on the Sistersville Plant's guidelines for maintaining and removing asbestos insulation. The attached memo states the plant would not…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1984
C. A. Gorrell to Maintenance First Line Supervisors on Mandatory Asbestos Hazard Training, with Sistersville Plant Asbestos Script, Slides and MSA Respirator Statement (1984)
A November 29, 1984 memo from C. A. Gorrell told maintenance first-line supervisors that an asbestos hazards program was mandatory and had to be presented to their work groups before January 1, 1985. The exhibit also holds typed and handwritten…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 17, 1983
J. S. Cornell to C. E. Fry, Dr. R. W. Holland and Others on a Meeting About Asbestos-Related Medical Issues (1983)
Internal correspondence from J. S. Cornell (Safety & Health) calling a March 29 meeting at South Charleston to discuss asbestos-related medical issues. The memo proposed reviewing South Charleston's diagnostic practices, their applicability to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 4, 1987
A. L. Barefoot to Location Managers on Employee Pulmonary Problems (1987)
A memo marked Business Confidential reporting that Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn of Corporate Medical said at an OSHA/Asbestos meeting in Danbury that employees with asbestosis or other severe pulmonary problems should not work with asbestos materials.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 28, 1987
D. Liebeskind to L. W. Phair on Asbestos Orientation for Sistersville Plant Workers, with Asbestos Abatement Brochure (1987)
…would conduct an asbestos orientation for workers at the Sistersville plant for about $1000/day plus expenses. The memo asks for the Union's views and attaches a brochure, 'Asbestos Abatement: Doin' It Right – Work Practices'…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 30, 1983
J. S. Cornell to B. H. Avashia and Others on Asbestos-Related Medical Issues and OSHA 200 Log Recording (1983)
Internal memo from the Safety & Health department summarizing a March 29, 1983 South Charleston meeting on asbestos-related medical issues. It covers chest X-ray review, recording of asbestos-related abnormalities on the OSHA 200 Log, and follow-up…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 18, 1983
W. F. Gorham to A. A. Lang and H. Lewinsohn on duPont's Asbestosis Film and Guidelines for Asbestos-Related Medical Cases, with Attached duPont Guideline Excerpts (1983)
A May 18, 1983 Union Carbide internal memo from W. F. Gorham reports that SCD representatives visited duPont's Medical Department to view its 30-minute film on asbestosis and received duPont's guidelines for diagnosing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 7, 1986
D. A. Boggs to S. L. Curtis on Serious Asbestos Health Hazard in the Monomers North Rectification Area, Sistersville Plant (1986)
Memo from the Sistersville Plant industrial hygienist reporting exposed, deteriorating asbestos insulation on distillation columns in the Monomers North Rectification Area and chunks of asbestos material found on the ground up to about 60 yards…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1987
Industrial Hygiene Results: Asbestos Exposure of UCC Design and Construction Insulators Using a Glove Bag, Polymers I Tank Farm (1987)
Industrial hygiene report dated June 30, 1987, on personal air samples taken February 13, 1987 from two UCC Design and Construction insulators removing asbestos with a glove bag at the Polymers I tank farm. One sample (0.22 f/cc) exceeded the 0.2…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 17, 1983
J. S. Cornell to C. E. Fry and Others on Asbestos-Related Medical Issues, Meeting Notice (1983)
Internal memo, signed by J. S. Cornell, calling a March 29 meeting at South Charleston, West Virginia, of the Silicones & Urethane Intermediates addressees. The meeting was to discuss procedures for diagnosing and reporting asbestos-related…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 26, 1986
T. L. Grittie to R. E. Crum and Others on Results of Asbestos Analysis of Lint from Vogue-Swift Washing Machines (1986)
…results of the lint analysis (Feb. 26, 1986), with handwritten note Kemron Environmental Services fiber identification qualitative analysis form for Union Carbide, sample 5610696 (scanned upside down) Borg-Warner inter-office correspondence dated Feb. 12, 1986…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 25, 1986
L. G. Moody to J. F. Dodd, W. V. Summers and G. W. Wulfert Transmitting Draft Outline of Project for Sistersville Plant Insulation Upgrade (1986)
A cover memo from L. G. Moody transmits a draft Outline of Project (dated June 23, 1986) for upgrading insulation at the Sistersville, WV plant, with an estimated cost of $1,500,000 capital and $600,000 expense over three years. The outline states…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1987
T. L. Grittie Industrial Hygiene Results on Glove Bag Asbestos Insulation Removal and Transite Roof Removal (1987)
Two Industrial Hygiene Results reports dated April 6, 1987. The first reports airborne fiber sampling of insulators removing asbestos insulation by the glove bag technique at the SSP Unit, K-36, and recommends closer scrutiny of the method. The…