40 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · July 24, 1973
W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison, Jr. on Deferring Coverall Service for King City Employees (1973)
Letter from W. C. Thurber to F. H. Larrison, Jr., with J. F. Emerson and J. W. Rawlings also listed, about a coverall service for all employees at an annual cost of $5,000 that was discussed during his visit the previous week. Thurber suggested…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 5, 1973
P. W. McDaniel to F. H. Larrison, Jr. on Air Samples Taken at the King City South Fence Line (1973)
Internal letter marked CONFIDENTIAL in which the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer reported air samples he collected on October 24, 1973 at the south fence line of the King City site. He gave fiber counts of 0.16 and 0.12 fibers/ml (5…
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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 · August 23, 1974
E. A. Piersall to Larrison, McDaniel, Reichard, Thurber and Welsh on Asbestos Dust Sampling and Record Keeping, with L. Larrison's June 26, 1974 Reply on King City Sampling Program (1974)
Exhibit UC-1554 contains an August 23, 1974 internal memo from E. A. Piersall (Grand Junction) saying no conclusion had been reached on his proposed asbestos dust sampling and record keeping program for King City and suggesting a discussion during…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 23, 1972
R. W. Cope Project Report on Industrial Hygiene Survey and Asbestos Air Analyses at the Bound Brook Plant (1972)
Project report (Project 910E10) on a February 14-15, 1972 visit to the Bound Brook Plant to sample air for asbestos fibers near Unit B, Building 3, and for nuisance dust at Unit 5, and to survey other production units for environmental health…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 16, 1974
W. C. Thurber to Dr. J. J. Welsh on Confidentiality of Employee Physical Examinations Under the OSHA Asbestos Regulations, with Attached March 4, 1974 Memo (1974)
…is a March 4, 1974 memo to Thurber from the "Calidria" Asbestos department at Niagara Falls. It reported union pressure for confidential exam results and suggested that the Consumer Product Safety Commission needed background on asbestos.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 11, 1975
L. J. LaPrance to W. J. Ziemba on Asbestos and Carbon Fiber Air Sampling at the Tarrytown Technical Center (1975)
…amines and fish toxicity, computer data room noise) Union Carbide Chemicals Division laboratory manual industrial hygiene method for determining amines in air (gas chromatography), enclosure Photocopied reference table on amines and amino compounds and their effects…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 27, 1968
Paul W. McDaniel to J. A. Riddle on Dust Concentrations at the King City Asbestos Facility, December 1968 Sampling (1968)
Internal Union Carbide letter from an industrial hygiene engineer to the King City plant, reporting airborne dust concentrations measured at the King City asbestos facility on December 10-12, 1968. It compares the results with the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 11, 1974
G. J. Weihs, Chrysotile Asbestos Markets and Forecasts for Group 7, with W. C. Thurber Cover Note and Related Memos (1974)
…7', March 1974: summary, conclusions, tables and end-use sections Partial Union Carbide internal form (Berkshire Business Forms) with little legible content; apparently not part of the report Commercial Intelligence memo to William Thurber, May 9…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 21, 1973
Handwritten Note to J. F. Emerson and W. G. Thurber on Cutting Calidria Plant Electricity Use, with PG&E Energy Conservation Letter (1973)
A handwritten note dated 11-21-73 to J. F. Emerson and W. G. Thurber says the attached PG&E letter was received and that the local PG&E man toured the plant and agreed the requested electricity cutback could not be met without shortening operating…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 4, 1974
Safety Department (B. A. Piersall) to F. H. Larrison on the Management Safety Audit of the King City Plant, October 16-17, 1974 (1974)
Internal correspondence reporting the results of a management safety audit of the King City plant on October 16-17, 1974, reviewed item by item against the 1973 audit recommendations. It covers safety programs, dust control, noise, and housekeeping,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 27, 1974
E. A. Piersall to King City Plant Managers on the October 1974 King City Safety Audit Schedule (1974)
Internal correspondence from the Safety department in Grand Junction, Colorado, setting out the schedule for a safety audit at the King City plant on October 16-17, 1974. It describes review of the prior year's recommendations, a plant inspection,…
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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 · January 31, 1978
Harrison B. Rhodes (signed by John L. Myers) to Dr. J. J. Welsh and T. W. Carmody on Sputum Cytology Results from the King City Asbestos Plant (1978)
A January 1978 memo forwarding Mr. Malacarne's discussion of sputum cytology results from the King City asbestos plant, asking whether the data were sufficient for journal publication or could be used to enhance the company's image. The memo gives…