18 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 22, 1969
Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Memos on the Asbestos Flooring and Paper Markets, with King City Calidria 1969 Budget Pages (1969)
Compilation of two 1969 internal Union Carbide memos and five pages of King City Calidria budget schedules dated 12-16-68. The first memo reviews competitors supplying asbestos to the flooring industry (Johns-Manville, Philip Carey…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 8, 1964
Union Carbide Chemicals Division Correspondence on Hiring a Texas Area Industrial Hygienist (1963-1964)
Internal Chemicals Division correspondence from December 1963 to January 1964 about whether to hire an industrial hygienist for the Texas Texas City, Seadrift and Brownsville plants. It includes N. H. Ketcham's request and attached memorandum, A. P.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1969
F. D. Dexter to L. P. Jehle, E. A. Barr and R. D. Bower on Divesting the Calidria Asbestos Business (1969)
…in which F. D. Dexter set out his view that the corporation's interests would be best served by divesting the Calidria asbestos business. He outlined preliminary steps: make it a separate entity, run it with…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 8, 1968
F. D. Dexter to R. H. Gregory, Jr. Requesting Information on Making the Asbestos Business a Wholly Owned Subsidiary (1968)
Memo marked 'Business-Confidential, Asbestos' in which F. D. Dexter formalized a request to the Law Department and others for information on making the asbestos business a separate, wholly owned subsidiary of UCC. He listed questions on the tax…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1969
F. D. Dexter to L. P. Jehle, E. A. Barr and R. D. Bower on Divesting the Calidria Asbestos Business (1969)
…F. D. Dexter set out his views on the Calidria asbestos business. He wrote that the corporation's interests would be best served by divesting it, outlined preliminary steps (a separate subsidiary, a few incentivized people…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 14, 1968
F. D. Dexter to E. A. Barr and Others Transmitting the Asbestos Workshop Presentation Recommending Divestiture of the Calidria Business (1968)
…1968. It includes an October 14 memo from F. D. Dexter asking permission to send a 'position paper' to Union Carbide's own people, an October 15 cover memo, handwritten notes, and the text of the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 7, 1968
R. S. Wishart, Jr. to F. D. Dexter on Possible Sale of the Calidria Asbestos Project to Johns Manville (1968)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that Kenneth Rush had spoken with Mr. Burnett of Johns Manville about the Calidria asbestos project and that Burnett would respond in about three weeks. It relays Rush's advice on…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 3, 1972
J. L. DeRoo to H. B. Coons Transmitting Annual Safety Audit Report on the Brownsville Plant (1972)
Internal correspondence dated May 3, 1972 transmitting the report of the second annual safety audit of the Brownsville Plant, conducted February 8-10, 1972. The report covers the plant's 1971 injury and fire experience, progress on 1971…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1969
N. J. Setter to F. D. Dexter, W. S. Young and L. P. Jehle on The Asbestos Market in the Flooring Industry (1969)
Internal Union Carbide memo reviewing the asbestos market in vinyl asbestos (VA) and asphalt floor tile, including estimated tonnages by customer and asbestos source, and the competitive position of Coalinga asbestos. It discusses options for increasing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1969
N. J. Setter to F. D. Dexter, W. S. Young and L. P. Jehle on The Asbestos Market in the Flooring Industry (1969)
Internal correspondence from the Chemicals and Plastics division in New York on the asbestos market in vinyl-asbestos (VA) and asphalt floor tile. It estimates total asbestos tonnage and Coalinga producers' share, tabulates estimated VA tile…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Distribution on OSHA Respiratory Protection Requirement for Asbestos Tear-Out (1972)
Memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to a list of Union Carbide recipients reporting OSHA's interpretation of respiratory protection for asbestos tear-out or removal. It states that OSHA's Delbert Flowers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 27, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. R. Guest on Asbestos Dust Monitoring at the Texas City Plant (1972)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which an industrial hygienist sent H. R. Guest the available asbestos dust study data for the Texas City plant. He listed limits on the data and said asbestos was still in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 14, 1972
D. E. Deese to H. B. Coons and Others on the OSHA Permanent Asbestos Standard (1972)
A June 14, 1972 memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to Texas City managers and a physician. It summarizes 18 requirements of OSHA's first permanent asbestos standard, including exposure limits, monitoring, medical examinations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 18, 1971
John L. DeRoo to H. B. Coons transmitting the Brownsville Plant Safety Audit report (1971)
A one-paragraph internal memo transmitting copies of the report of a safety audit of the Brownsville, Texas plant (Location 526), conducted in January by H. Ritchie and the writer. It thanks the plant staff, particularly Jim Friedel, for their…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 6, 1964
Union Carbide Chemicals Co. Correspondence on Hiring a Texas Area Industrial Hygienist: Ketcham, Moss, Allspach and Coons (1963-1964)
Four internal Union Carbide Chemicals Company letters and memos from December 1963 to January 1964 about a proposal to hire an industrial hygienist for the Texas plants (Texas City, Seadrift, Brownsville). N. H. Ketcham's proposal…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 11, 1955
A. C. Hamstead and L. S. VanDelinder, Final Report on Gasket Materials for Ethylene Oxide-Butanol Process Equipment (1955)
A 1955 final report from the Process Development Laboratory of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Company on gasket materials for ethylene oxide-butanol process equipment. It reported that asbestos gaskets slowly deteriorated in the butanol/ethylene oxide…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 16, 1955
R. K. Wilson to J. C. Malone on the Scope of the Ethylene Oxide Protective Program at the Institute Plant (1955)
Internal letter-memo describing a five-part protective program for ethylene oxide units at the Institute, West Virginia plant. The program covered eliminating asbestos (chiefly gaskets) from contact with ethylene oxide, cleaning equipment,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 29, 1971
R. E. Joyner, M.D. to Gulf Coast Distribution on Emergency Standards for Exposure to Asbestos Dust (1971)
Internal letter from the Gulf Coast Area medical director to a distribution list of managers, summarizing the emergency standard for asbestos dust exposure published under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 in the Federal Register of…