65 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 4
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 9, 1971
R. W. Schwartz Memo Forwarding Minutes of the GE/Hooker/Union Carbide Safety Meeting on Asbestos Handling (1971)
…July 9, 1971 cover memo sent a distribution list the minutes of a June 18, 1971 safety meeting among General Electric, Hooker Chemical and Union Carbide, and pointed readers to the asbestos paragraphs. The minutes, prepared…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1966
Mellon Institute Special Report 29-55: Fibrogenic Potential of Asbestos Products by Intraperitoneal and Intratracheal Injection in Animals, for Union Carbide Chemicals Division (1966)
Confidential Mellon Institute special report on tests of three asbestos fiber products (CMS-100, JT-100 and JM-3K) injected into guinea pigs, rats and rabbits intraperitoneally and into rats intratracheally. It reports granulomas and fibrotic…
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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 · June 15, 1971
P. W. McDaniel and J. L. Myers Report of Call on EPA Office of Air Programs Regarding Calidria Pellets and Asbestos Emission Standards (1971)
Report of a June 1971 meeting between Union Carbide staff and EPA Office of Air Programs personnel (Source Control Branch) to discuss how Calidria pellets and the production system reduce asbestos dust. It records EPA's…
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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 · January 17, 1972
W. N. Johnson to P. W. McDaniel and Others on the Test Program for Airborne Asbestos (1972)
Memo summarizing arrangements agreed at a January 12 meeting in Niagara for a program to measure airborne asbestos. The program covered a survey of employee exposure at customers' plants near Bartow, Florida, and laboratory tests at Niagara of…
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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 · 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 · 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 · December 4, 1972
John L. Myers to P. W. McDaniel on Air Sampling for Asbestos Fibers (1972)
Internal memo reporting on a November 16 (1972) Los Angeles symposium on asbestos and related diseases sponsored by the Southern California section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. Myers relayed NIOSH advice on collecting asbestos air…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 3, 1968
D. S. Kamens to Paul W. McDaniel on Dust Particle Counts at the King City Bagging Area and Other Locations (1968)
Internal correspondence dated January 3, 1968, from D. S. Kamens at King City to the Medical Department in New York, enclosing dust particle counts taken December 29, 1967. It states that the bagging area had been enclosed and made a no smoking or…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 30, 1974
E. C. Madlangbayan to Paul W. McDaniel on Personal Air Samples at the King City Plant, December (1974)
Internal memo from the King City quality control supervisor to the Medical Department in New York reporting personal air sampling results for six plant workers in December 1974. The cover page gives time-weighted averages by job classification.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 17, 1969
Gabe Acosta to Paul W. McDaniel Transmitting King City Plant Dust Particle Counts (1969)
A one-paragraph internal letter from Gabe Acosta at King City to Paul W. McDaniel in New York enclosing dust particle counts taken September 10 and 11, 1969, on swing shift. The attached sample sheets list 18 samples by plant area (palletizing,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 13, 1968
J. A. Riddle to P. W. McDaniel on Dust Count Results and Dust Control Measures at the King City Plant (1968)
Internal Union Carbide letter from J. A. Riddle to Dr. P. W. McDaniel of the Medical Department about dust count results taken by Kamens at the King City plant. It says the counts were generally within…
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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,…