16 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 19, 1983
W. C. Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents and Department Heads on OSHA Plan to Lower Asbestos Permissible Exposure Limits (1983)
A one-page internal memo from the South Charleston Plant, signed "Bill Young", forwarding to maintenance supervisors an attached article from Occupational Safety & Health Reporter dated April 14, 1983. The subject line is an OSHA plan to lower…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 4, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to John Cornell on Recording and Reporting of Asbestos-Related Radiographic Abnormalities, with Attached OSHA Recordkeeping Instructions and 1979 Raybestos-Manhattan Surveillance Paper (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which H. C. Lewinsohn followed up a March 29, 1983 Charleston meeting on classifying asbestos-related chest x-ray abnormalities for record-keeping. He attached OSHA recordkeeping instructions he had prepared…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 14, 1983
Bill Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents Forwarding OSHA Plans for Asbestos Exposure Limit Reduction (1983)
A one-page internal memo from the South Charleston Plant forwarding an attached report from OSHR on a planned OSHA reduction of the asbestos exposure limit. The memo says the proposed changes may affect the recipients' operations. Copies went to the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 16, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Stay of OSHA's Emergency Temporary Standard for Asbestos (1983)
A one-page memorandum reporting that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Asbestos Information Association's request to stay OSHA's emergency temporary standard on occupational asbestos exposure. It states that the order bars OSHA from…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 5, 1984
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on Court Ruling Disallowing the OSHA Asbestos Emergency Temporary Standard (1984)
A one-page memorandum from W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson, with copies to others, reproducing a summary from Occupational Safety and Health Reporter. The summary reports that the Fifth Circuit struck down OSHA's emergency asbestos standard. Young…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 6, 1980
E. O. Lewis to J. S. Cornell on Extending the Life of the Fillmont Landfill (1980)
Internal correspondence dated February 6, 1980, from the Environmental Protection department at the South Charleston Plant to J. S. Cornell. It says the Fillmont Landfill was in its final lift and asks that material be diverted to the Kanawha County…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 2, 1980
Internal Memo to J. S. Cornell on an Asbestos Screening Test for Plant Insulation Samples, South Charleston Plant (1980)
Internal correspondence at the South Charleston Plant, addressed to J. S. Cornell with copies to area maintenance superintendents and others, reporting that the Plant Laboratory had performed a NIOSH-published colorimetric test for the probable…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 9, 1982
W. C. Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring at South Charleston Plant (1982)
Internal memo stating that a plant safety procedure requires employee asbestos exposure monitoring on significant jobs handling asbestos-containing insulation. It says OSHA requires supplied-air respirators unless exposure limits are shown not to be…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 2, 1980
William C. Young to J. S. Cornell on Asbestos Screening Test for Plant Insulation, South Charleston Plant (1980)
Internal correspondence reporting that the plant laboratory had performed a NIOSH-published colorimetric test for the probable presence of asbestos on insulation samples. It says the Plant Safety Department would offer on-site field testing and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 2, 1980
Internal Memo to J. S. Cornell on an Asbestos Screening Test for Insulation Samples at the South Charleston Plant (1980)
Internal correspondence at the South Charleston Plant, sent to J. S. Cornell with copies to area maintenance superintendents and others. It says the plant laboratory successfully ran a NIOSH-published colorimetric test on insulation samples to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 5, 1987
L. B. Hewitt to Plant Department Heads on the Asbestos Insulation Project at the South Charleston Plant, with Attached Project Plan and Schedule (1987)
Memo from L. B. Hewitt to plant department heads describing a multi-phase project to remove asbestos insulation at the South Charleston plant, with the criteria used to set priorities and the contractor, Powerhouse Equipment Company. Attachments…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 4, 1984
Wayne E. Williams to Maintenance Area Superintendents on Asbestos Safety Meeting Topic for May 9, 1984, with Leader's Guide (1984)
A May 4, 1984 memo from Wayne E. Williams to maintenance area superintendents naming Asbestos Material Removal and Disposal as the topic of the May 9, 1984 monthly safety meeting. It encloses a Leader's Guide, answer key, revised handling checklist…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 4, 1984
Wayne E. Williams to Maintenance Area Superintendents on the May 9, 1984 Safety Meeting Topic of Asbestos Material Removal and Disposal, with Leader's Guide and Asbestos Inventory (1984)
A May 4, 1984 memo from Wayne E. Williams to maintenance area superintendents set the topic of the May 9, 1984 monthly safety meeting as asbestos material removal and disposal. It enclosed a leader's guide, a 10-question true/false Asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 14, 1983
Bill Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents Forwarding OSHA Plans Asbestos Exposure Limit Reduction Report (1983)
A one-page Union Carbide South Charleston Plant internal memo transmitting an attached Occupational Safety & Health Reporter article on OSHA's plans to lower the asbestos exposure limit. The attached BNA report (July 7, 1983) states…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 12, 1982
L. E. McClure to J. S. Cornell on Asbestosis Cases at the South Charleston Plant (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo dated November 12, 1982, asking for Divisional direction on handling an emerging issue of increased asbestosis cases at the South Charleston Plant. It says the plant had refused a Union request for…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1988
R. B. Janik to Maintenance Superintendents and Turf Department Heads on Asbestos Gasket Disposal (1988)
Internal correspondence from the Texas City shop superintendent instructing maintenance and turf department personnel to handle asbestos gaskets as asbestos, keep them wet during and after removal, and deliver them in marked asbestos bags to the…