18 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 21, 1979
P. R. Schweppe to Piping Group on Discontinuing Asbestos Rope as Centering Device for Clay and Cast Iron Soil Pipe, with Attached Standards Program Memo (1979)
Cover memorandum from P. R. Schweppe transmitting a May 10, 1979 Standards Program memo about asbestos rope used as centering devices for cast iron soil pipe and clay pipe sewer and drain systems. The attached memo said handling asbestos rope may…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Changing at Texas City (1979)
Internal memo from an industrial hygienist reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's October 16, 1979 visit to the Texas City plant to investigate potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges. It describes an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 26, 1981
E. L. Adkins to C. F. Morris on Asbestos Monitoring Data for Gasket Fabrication, Building 325, Institute Plant (1981)
Internal memo from E. L. Adkins (Industrial Hygiene) reporting asbestos air monitoring on October 6, 1981 in the gasket fabrication area of Building 325, Institute Plant, where an employee cut Garlok sheets into gaskets. One personal and one area…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Ethylene Oxide Filter Change at Texas City (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo from an industrial hygienist at Texas City reporting an October 16, 1979 OSHA visit on potential employee exposure during changing of ethylene oxide filter cartridges at the loading rack. It describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 7, 1979
J. C. Ledvina to J. H. Barrett and Others on an OSHA Visit to the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting a visit by two OSHA representatives to the Texas City plant to discuss ethylene production and ethylene oxide use. It lists nine points from the discussion, including OSHA's interest in brain tumors among plant workers, a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1979
A. Perihan Yalcinkaya to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Visit to the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal correspondence reporting an OSHA compliance officer's August 17, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant in response to an employee complaint about resin dust levels and respirator use in Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Bldg. 121. It describes the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 20, 1979
A. P. Yalcinkaya to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Inspection of the Texas City Plant's Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Building (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's August 17, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant after an employee complaint about resin dust levels and respirator use in Solvent Vinyl Resins Drying Bldg…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 9, 1979
Harvey R. Schulz to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Complaint Investigation at the Texas City Plant Van Box Shop (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's October 3, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant to investigate an employee complaint of overexposure to ozone, argon and metal fumes during welding in the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 14, 1979
J. B. Leverton to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's March 14, 1979 visit to the Texas City plant to investigate an employee complaint about mercury catalyst and vinyl chloride exposure. It states that his sampling…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 27, 1976
J. H. Rapp to J. P. Alexander and Others on Coveralls for Insulators, with D. E. Deese Memo on Asbestos Strip Job Monitoring (1976)
Two Texas City memos on asbestos. The first, dated February 27, 1976, from J. H. Rapp to plant personnel, announced that coveralls would be issued to insulators who might be exposed to asbestos fibers above the ceiling level, and gave laundering and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 15, 1979
H. H. Frazier to Peter Barna on Use of AMATEX Asbestos Tape in Plant 512 (1979)
Memo from H. H. Frazier to Peter Barna on three brands of insulating tape used at the Institute Plant. It reports that AMATEX tape contained raw asbestos fibers including dust, cites measurements of 0.03 to 1.9 fibers per cc at the Technical Center,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 1, 1980
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Investigation of Mercury and Vinyl Chloride Complaint at Texas City (1980)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's January 29, 1980 investigation at the Texas City plant of an alleged employee complaint about mercury exposure in Bldg. 137 and vinyl chloride exposure around Bldg…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 21, 1979
P. R. Schweppe to Engineering Distribution on Discontinuing Asbestos Centering Rope for Clay Pipe and Cast Iron Soil Pipe, with Attached L. A. Peggs Memo (1979)
A May 21, 1979 cover memorandum from P. R. Schweppe forwarding an attached May 10, 1979 memo from the Chemicals/Plastics Division Standards Program (questions directed to L. A. Peggs). The attached memo states that asbestos rope listed in piping…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 9, 1979
Harvey R. Schulz to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Complaint Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's September 28, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant to investigate an employee complaint about road dust north of the #3 Olefins furnaces. It describes the meeting and tour, the plant's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1979
Kirk E. Martin to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Complaint Investigation of Welding in Van Boxes at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's follow-up investigation on October 30, 1979, at the Texas City Plant into employee complaints of overexposure to ozone, argon and metal fumes while welding inside van boxes in building 189. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 4, 1979
Harvey R. Schulz to J. H. Barrett and Others on the August 28, 1979 OSHA Visit at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting that OSHA industrial hygienist Alan Trivette returned to the Texas City Plant on August 28, 1979 to sample for solvent vinyl resin dust, following an August 17 inspection prompted by an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 9, 1979
H. R. Schulz to J. H. Barrett et al. on OSHA Road Dust Complaint Investigation at the Texas City Plant (1979)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting an OSHA industrial hygienist's September 28, 1979 visit to the Texas City Plant to investigate an employee complaint about road dust near the #3 Olefins furnaces. It describes the opening…
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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…