36 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 · September 5, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to W. N. Johnson on Gravimetric vs. Fiber-Count Evaluation of Asbestos (1972)
Confidential internal letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer to W. N. Johnson of Mining & Metals about using a gravimetric (weight) system to evaluate asbestos. It reports that a brief trial at King City found no…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 9, 1973
Floyd H. Larrison Jr. to E. S. Prochnik on Press Coverage of Selikoff's Senate Testimony and the King City Asbestos Operation (1973)
…a clipping reporting Dr. Irving Selikoff's Senate subcommittee testimony. He wrote that the Salinas reporter was told Union Carbide had no comment on the testimony, but that the problems in general, the company's concern…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1972
John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson Transmitting Draft Interim Toxicology Report on Asbestos for Customer Mailing (1972)
A Feb. 18, 1972 internal memo from John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson sends Calidria's version of a proposed interim toxicology report and asks him to obtain management, medical and legal approvals for a general customer mailing. The exhibit also holds…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 3, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to J. L. Myers on Asbestos Fiber Survey at American Biltrite Plant, Trenton, N.J. (1972)
Internal Union Carbide letter reporting a March 1, 1972 airborne asbestos fiber survey at the American Biltrite plant in Trenton, N.J., where asbestos was used in plastic tile manufacture. It lists fiber counts at seven…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1972
John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson Transmitting Interim Toxicology Report on Asbestos, with Customer Cover Letter (1972)
Internal memo of February 18, 1972 from John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson, enclosing the Research and Development Department's version of an "Interim Toxicology Report" and asking Johnson to obtain management, medical and legal approvals for general…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 25, 1971
P. L. Reiber to R. L. Folkman on Asbestos Export Sales in Europe (1971)
Internal memo reporting on the writer's recent trip to Europe, where he met Heinz Trautmann and staff of U. C. Europe S.A. in Geneva to discuss asbestos sales and reseller activity. It describes three product groupings (standard grade for floor…
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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 19, 1979
John L. Myers to W. G. Alesio, G. R. Bailey and Others on Strategic Planning for the Calidria Asbestos Business (1979)
Internal memo from John L. Myers responding to a 4/3/79 memorandum from Bob Rebholtz on defining the asbestos business and industry. Myers described the Calidria business as mining, milling and marketing short fiber asbestos, said a single industry…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 9, 1972
Floyd H. Larrison, Jr. to W. N. Johnson on Air Sampling Program Results near the King City Mill and Mine (1972)
Internal letter from the King City office reporting results of air sampling taken around the King City mill (Feb. 29 and Mar. 1, 1972) and the mine area (Mar. 2, 1972). The letter concludes that no particle counted near the mill was asbestos, says…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1, 1972
Paul W. McDaniel to J. L. Myers on Asbestos Dust Exposure Study at American Biltrite, Los Angeles (1972)
Internal Union Carbide letter from the Medical Department's industrial hygiene engineer reporting a May 24, 1972 air-sampling study at American Biltrite Co., Los Angeles, of asbestos dust exposure in vinyl floor tile production. It…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 28, 1980
J. T. Kelly to R. L. Folkman Transmitting the Asbestos Strategy Package for the King City Calidria Business (1980)
A cover memo from J. T. Kelly of Financial Control transmits the latest asbestos strategy package, which assumes an OSHA TLV of no more than 1.0 fiber per cc and estimates the cost of a 0.5 fiber limit at King City. The attached slides cover the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 4, 1977
H. B. Rhodes to R. L. Folkman on the NIOSH Asbestos Recommendation and the King City Plant, with Attached Request and Wall Street Journal Article (1977)
Internal letter in which H. B. Rhodes answered R. L. Folkman's December 28, 1976 request for comment on the NIOSH asbestos statement. He summarized the OSHA 1975 proposal and the NIOSH position, said the King City plant was generally meeting the 2…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 7, 1972
M. A. Peters to W. N. Johnson on Experimental Results for Airborne Asbestos, Part II (1972)
Memorandum from M. A. Peters reporting experimental work on a method of estimating airborne asbestos by measuring magnesium with atomic absorption spectroscopy instead of counting fibers. It covers reagent and filter blanks and air samples from four…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 31, 1980
R. W. Rebholz Transmittal to G. R. Bailey, R. L. Folkman and F. J. Shortsleeve of J. L. Myers' 1981 Asbestos Business Budget Narrative, with Myers' Memo and 'The Asbestos Business - 1980 & 1981' (1980)
Exhibit consists of a one-page cover note from R. W. Rebholz forwarding the 1981 Asbestos Business Budget narrative, a Myers-to-Rebholz internal memo dated October 28, 1980, and Myers' five-page report 'The Asbestos Business - 1980 & 1981'. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 18, 1972
John L. Myers to W. N. Johnson Transmitting Interim Toxicology Report on Asbestos for Customer Mailing (1972)
…medical and legal approvals so it could be mailed to customers. The report discusses asbestos health effects, the OSHA and EPA rules of 1971-72 and dust control, and states Union Carbide's position on asbestos.
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 13, 1980
R. W. Rebholz to G. R. Bailey and Others on Asbestos Business Meetings (1980)
Memorandum dated March 13, 1980 announcing that, with the Mineral Products Meeting on March 27, Dr. Rhodes would discuss the current status of health-related regulations on the promotion and use of asbestos products. A discussion to update the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 4, 1977
H. B. Rhodes to R. L. Folkman on NIOSH Asbestos Recommendation and Calidria Exposure Levels, with Folkman's Request and WSJ Article (1977)
Internal Union Carbide Metals Division letter in which H. B. Rhodes responded to R. L. Folkman's December 28, 1976 request for comment on the NIOSH asbestos statement. He summarized the OSHA proposal and the NIOSH…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 23, 1979
T. D. Finnigan to R. L. Folkman and Others on the 'Asbestos In Schools' Bill, H.R. 1524 (1979)
…by companies that mined, made or imported asbestos from 1946 to 1972. It gives an estimated Union Carbide share of $180,000 under a $30 million ceiling, discusses possible larger abatement costs, and attaches the bill…