36 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 25, 1983
Batson-Cook Company (Hugh L. Cotton) to Union Carbide on Asbestos Dust Tests and News Coverage, Memorial Medical Center, Savannah (1983)
…article by Tom Barton, July 21, 1983, on asbestos added to the floor compound at Memorial Medical Center Letter, Union Carbide Corporation Metals Division to Hugh Cotten, Batson Cook Company, July 20, 1983, about Calidria RG…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 15, 1983
John Crane to Roger Wolff: Marked-Up Draft Press Statement on Calidria RG-244 and the Savannah Hospital Incident (1983)
Two copies of a short draft press statement, 'if needed', about a Savannah hospital incident. The statement describes Calidria asbestos RG-244 as a short-fiber chrysotile used where it is embedded in resin. Both copies carry handwritten cross-outs…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to H. B. Rhodes on Asbestos Toxicology and the IRDA Genotoxicity Item (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which the Assistant Corporate Medical Director comments on an IRDA item, "Further Evidence that Asbestos is not Genotoxic." He says the in vitro findings cannot be related to human exposure, that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 26, 1983
Thomas A. Lincoln to H. C. Lewinsohn on Proposal to Classify Chest Radiographs of UCC Headquarters Personnel (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo of August 26, 1983 from the Corporate Medical Director to Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn, responding to a proposal to classify chest radiographs of corporate headquarters personnel under the ILO pneumoconiosis classification (revised…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 15, 1983
R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Thurber on Substituting a Revised Asbestos Label for the OSHA Label (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo from R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Thurber proposing that a different attached label replace the OSHA-mandated asbestos label on UCC asbestos products shipped to U.S. users, subject to OSHA…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1983
H. C. Lewinsohn to H. B. Rhodes on Asbestos Toxicology and the IRDA Note on Genotoxicity (1983)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Assistant Corporate Medical Director commenting on an IRDA item, "Further Evidence that Asbestos is not Genotoxic." He wrote that the in vitro findings could not be related to human exposure…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 17, 1983
J. S. Cornell to C. E. Fry, Dr. R. W. Holland and Others on a Meeting About Asbestos-Related Medical Issues (1983)
Internal correspondence from J. S. Cornell (Safety & Health) calling a March 29 meeting at South Charleston to discuss asbestos-related medical issues. The memo proposed reviewing South Charleston's diagnostic practices, their applicability to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 4, 1987
A. L. Barefoot to Location Managers on Employee Pulmonary Problems (1987)
A memo marked Business Confidential reporting that Dr. H. C. Lewinsohn of Corporate Medical said at an OSHA/Asbestos meeting in Danbury that employees with asbestosis or other severe pulmonary problems should not work with asbestos materials.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 28, 1987
D. Liebeskind to L. W. Phair on Asbestos Orientation for Sistersville Plant Workers, with Asbestos Abatement Brochure (1987)
…would conduct an asbestos orientation for workers at the Sistersville plant for about $1000/day plus expenses. The memo asks for the Union's views and attaches a brochure, 'Asbestos Abatement: Doin' It Right – Work Practices'…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1982
H. B. Rhodes to D. L. Haywood on Reporting Health and Safety Studies to EPA under TSCA Section 8(d), with Attached Mellon Institute Covers and King City Sputum Cytology Papers (1982)
Internal Metals Division memo from H. B. Rhodes listing the items the division had identified as potentially reportable under TSCA Section 8(d): two Mellon Institute asbestos reports, King City mill sputum cytology summaries, and a deposition by Dr.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 30, 1983
J. S. Cornell to B. H. Avashia and Others on Asbestos-Related Medical Issues and OSHA 200 Log Recording (1983)
Internal memo from the Safety & Health department summarizing a March 29, 1983 South Charleston meeting on asbestos-related medical issues. It covers chest X-ray review, recording of asbestos-related abnormalities on the OSHA 200 Log, and follow-up…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 22, 1983
L. A. Crisorio to T. W. Carmody et al. Transmitting Minutes of April 7, 1983 Meeting on the Financial Impact of the Miller Bill (1983)
Internal memo transmitting minutes of an April 7, 1983 ad hoc meeting that reviewed the financial impact on the Metals Division of a proposed Miller Bill to fund compensation for asbestos and other toxic substance claims. The attachments include…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 18, 1983
W. F. Gorham to A. A. Lang and H. Lewinsohn on duPont's Asbestosis Film and Guidelines for Asbestos-Related Medical Cases, with Attached duPont Guideline Excerpts (1983)
A May 18, 1983 Union Carbide internal memo from W. F. Gorham reports that SCD representatives visited duPont's Medical Department to view its 30-minute film on asbestosis and received duPont's guidelines for diagnosing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 17, 1983
J. S. Cornell to C. E. Fry and Others on Asbestos-Related Medical Issues, Meeting Notice (1983)
Internal memo, signed by J. S. Cornell, calling a March 29 meeting at South Charleston, West Virginia, of the Silicones & Urethane Intermediates addressees. The meeting was to discuss procedures for diagnosing and reporting asbestos-related…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 21, 1982
R. W. Rebholz to W. C. Kuryla on Asbestos Labeling and Cigarette Smoking (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo following up on an October 20 memorandum. It reports a suggestion that a new asbestos label warn that cancer risk from asbestos exposure is increased by cigarette smoking, summarizes Dr. Selikoff's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 2, 1984
T. Guy Fortney, M.D. to J. L. Myers on the May 1984 King City Site Visit and Medical Program Recommendations (1984)
Internal correspondence from Union Carbide's western regional medical director to the King City plant manager following a site visit, praising the medical program and enclosing recommendations. The enclosures review the results of the 1982 recommendations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 16, 1982
H. B. Rhodes to N. B. Haubold on the 1982 Industrial Hygiene Sampling Program for Plateau Mining Operations (1982)
Cover memo from H. B. Rhodes transmitting the revised 1982 Industrial Hygiene Sampling Program for Plateau Mining Operations, followed by the program text and tables. The program discusses 1981 respirable dust and silica results at the Plateau…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 21, 1982
R. W. Rebholz to Dr. W. C. Kuryla on Asbestos Labeling and Cigarette Smoking (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo following up on an October 20 memorandum, noting a suggestion that a new asbestos label warn that cancer risk from asbestos exposure is increased by cigarette smoking. It summarizes Dr. Selikoff's…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 11, 1983
Harry Rhodes to Hilton Lewinsohn, M.D., Enclosing Asbestos Fiber Size Measurement Data on COF-25 (1983)
…enclosed, that COF-25 was the material supplied, and that COF-25 was Union Carbide's first commercial material and the base for RG-244. A stamp shows it was received by Lewinsohn on February 17…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 9, 1983
R. W. Rebholz to R. A. Butler and Others Circulating Proposed Asbestos Product Label Text (1983)
A one-paragraph internal memo from R. W. Rebholz, dated March 9, 1983, said that Dr. Lewinsohn developed a "consensus" asbestos product label text after a March 7 meeting and asked for early comments. The attached text is a warning headed "Cancer…