64 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 4
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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 · 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 · January 19, 1968
Paul W. McDaniel to John A. Riddle on Mesothelioma, Crocidolite and Chrysotile Dust Limits (1968)
Internal letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to the King City operation. It states that the link between crocidolite and mesothelioma seemed well established while the link for chrysotile was unclear. It also discusses…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 27, 1968
Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on December 1968 Dust Counts at the King City Asbestos Facility (1968)
Internal letter from Union Carbide's industrial hygiene engineer to the King City plant, reporting dust counts from impinger and filter samples taken December 10-12, 1968 and comparing them with the 5.0 MPPCF limit…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1965
Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on a Planned California Department of Health Visit to Asbestos Operations (1965)
Internal Union Carbide correspondence from industrial hygiene engineer Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle at King City. It reported that Dr. Christine Einert of the California Department of Health planned to visit asbestos operations in…
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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 · June 6, 1980
P. R. Sherman and R. O. Marsten Trip Report on Asbestos Bagging Improvement at Bound Brook and Union Camp (1980)
…NJ, and Union Camp's Lyndhurst plant. It describes why the Union Camp accumulator/loader was judged unsuitable for a dust-proof overwrap of asbestos bags at King City. It then lists the agreed program of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 21, 1971
Compilation: J. W. Rawlings Action Memo on Asbestos Test Program and King City Dust Control (1971), W. N. Johnson Memo on Airborne Asbestos Tests (1972), and B. A. Osby Memo on Institute Plant Landfill (1986)
Compilation of three Union Carbide internal memoranda. The 1971 Rawlings memo sets out action items after a December 17 asbestos meeting: simulated dust-count tests on customer uses, a two-year King City dust-control program…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 3, 1970
T. P. Norris Report of Call on Mosinee Paper Mill Co. Regarding Employers Mutual's Asbestosis Warning (1970)
A Union Carbide report of a call on Mosinee Paper Mill Co. (Mosinee, Wisconsin), interviewing Henry Blanchard and Glenn Bemis. It states that Mosinee's evaluation of Calidria products HPP and T-135 was stopped after…
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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 · 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 · 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 · September 18, 1970
P. W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on Electron Micrographs of King City Plant Dust Samples (1970), with May 1972 King City Dust Count Data and F. H. Larrison Jr. Cover Memo to P. McDaniel
A September 18, 1970 internal letter from Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle at King City discusses electron micrographs and a laboratory report on airborne dust samples from the King City plant, including a respirator filter test. It is followed by a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 10, 1971
J. W. Rawlings to E. Epremian and Others on Preparing an Asbestos Safety and Control Information Package for Customers (1971)
Memorandum from J. W. Rawlings asking seven recipients to draft assigned sections of an educational document on asbestos safety and control for customers, with drafts due September 27. The attached outline lists the proposed sections (introduction,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 4, 1974
W. C. Thurber to V. D. Holt, R. J. Klotzbach, F. H. Larrison and J. L. Myers on Shrink Wrapping Bags to Control Fill-Valve Leakage (1974)
Memo from W. C. Thurber, with a copy line for O. J. Malocarne of Niagara Falls, New York, to four recipients. It says leakage from the fill valve is a major problem in packaging asbestos. It asks for an individual bag shrink film oven and a bag…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 19, 1968
Compilation: McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on Chrysotile and Mesothelioma, with Nature Article, Dernehl and Lane Asbestos Toxicology Report, and 1966 Sales Memo (1968)
…limit Nature, vol. 217, Jan. 13, 1968, 'More on Asbestosis' (British Advisory Panel memorandum), with received stamp and handwritten marks Union Carbide 'Asbestos Toxicology Report' by C. U. Dernehl, M.D. and K. S. Lane, M…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 2, 1971
E. Epremian to Asbestos Meeting Distribution Transmitting NRC Airborne Asbestos Extracts and Summary of Asbestos Laws (1971)
Internal memo of September 2, 1971 from E. Epremian sending background for the September 8 asbestos meeting on Environmental Factors. The enclosures are extracts of the 1971 National Research Council report 'Airborne Asbestos' (conclusions and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 28, 1970
J. E. Skvarla and H. B. Rhodes Call Report on Permutit Co. Inquiry About Asbestos for Oil Removal from Recycled Water (1970)
Call report on a telephone call from Hans Lundgren of Permutit Co. (Paramus, N.J.), who was preparing a proposal on using asbestos to remove emulsified oil from recycled demineralized water in a PVC-PVA manufacturing operation. Skvarla agreed to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 20, 1969
Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on Airborne Dust Counts at the King City Plant (1969)
Internal letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to the King City plant, reporting airborne dust counts from samples collected on June 11 and 12, 1969. He counted particles of 5 microns or longer at eight plant locations,…
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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 Use (1970)
Two Union Carbide reports of call by T. P. Norris. The first (Oct. 14, 1970) records a meeting with Mosinee Paper Mills and Employers Insurance of Wausau about asbestosis claims, advice on controls and x-rays…