24 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 1972
OSHA Reply to D. E. Deese on Asbestos Monitoring and Medical Exams, with Union Carbide Asbestos Insulation Removal Procedures and F. Williams Memo to R. J. Taylor (1972)
Compilation of four items: an OSHA letter replying to a Union Carbide industrial hygienist about the asbestos monitoring and medical examination requirements of 29 CFR 1910.93a; a Seadrift Plant procedure for removing asbestos insulation; and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 12, 1986
C. P. Maxwell to Browning, Collins, Graham, Keller, Mills, Noble and Rucker Transmitting M. A. Patel's OSHA Amended Asbestos Standard Training Slides (1986)
A handwritten cover note dated September 12, 1986 from C. P. Maxwell forwards copies of overhead slides that Manhar Patel prepared and used in a training session for Services and Construction Department supervisors on the OSHA amended asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 3, 1979
Ron Ritchie to J. B. Leverton and R. J. Taylor Forwarding OSHA Jobsite Information Survey Correspondence (1979)
Cover memo from Ron Ritchie passing along correspondence about OSHA Jobsite Information Surveys, with an Employee Relations memo from R. V. Welty (Oct. 1, 1979) and a Sept. 21, 1979 letter from Law Department attorney John W. Whittlesey to J. B.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 3, 1985
M. F. Stowers and Manhar A. Patel to W. T. Shelton: Industrial Hygiene Monitoring for Asbestos, Bldg. 707 Heliflo Insulation Stripping (1985)
Industrial hygiene monitoring report dated May 3, 1985 on personal air samples taken April 26, 1985 from two workers stripping old insulation from a heliflo system in Bldg. 707. Results were 0.38 and 0.27 fibers/cc over 35 minutes, compared against…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 8, 1979
L. W. Phair to Plant Staff on Asbestos Insulation Disposal at the South Charleston Plant (1979)
Internal correspondence dated October 8, 1979, from L. W. Phair to ten plant staff members about disposal of asbestos insulation at the South Charleston Plant. It states that asbestos insulation must go in dumpsters taken to Fillmont, not regular…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 22, 1985
G. W. Phares to B. H. Avashia, M.D., and Others on Asbestos Monitoring at South Charleston Plant (1985)
Internal Union Carbide memo reporting asbestos exposure monitoring done on November 18, 1985 while construction employees stripped and bagged insulation from a tank at the South Charleston polyols unit. It states that all samples were below…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 12, 1984
M. F. Stowers to G. W. Phares on Asbestos Monitoring During Insulation Stripping at the Institute Plant (1984)
Internal memo reporting personal asbestos exposure monitoring on November 13, 1984 during stripping of about 100 ft of asbestos-containing steam line insulation at the Institute plant. It states that all four samples were well below the 2.0 fibers…
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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 · May 16, 1985
M. F. Stowers to R. S. Howell on Asbestos Monitoring During Insulation Stripping at the Institute Plant (1985)
Internal memo reporting asbestos air monitoring done on May 7, 1985 while construction employees stripped about 200 ft. of insulation from 3 inch process lines near the Pesticide B Unit at the Institute plant. It states all samples were below the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 19, 1972
R. E. Joyner, M.D. to R. J. Taylor on the Proposed OSHA Asbestos Dust Standard and Warning Signs (1972)
Internal correspondence in which Dr. Joyner commented on the OSHA notice of proposed rules on asbestos dust exposure published in the Federal Register on January 12, 1972. He called the proposals mostly realistic and desirable but objected to the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 7, 1986
A. F. Terry to T. L. Collins and Others on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring of Steam Line Stripping, Building 726 (1986)
Internal Union Carbide memo transmitting asbestos air-monitoring results for two employees, R. P. Hess and F. R. Creech, who stripped asbestos insulation from steam lines outside and inside the Building 726 compressor room on September…
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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 · July 22, 1986
M. A. Patel to Distribution List on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard, with T. E. Hanning's Summary of Changes (1986)
A July 22, 1986 internal memo from Technical Center industrial hygienist Manhar A. Patel reported that OSHA had amended its asbestos standard and attached T. E. Hanning's summary of the changes. The summary covers the lower exposure limit,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 8, 1982
J. S. Cornell to F. Beauvilliers and Others on Asbestosis Illness Recording History at South Charleston (1982)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Safety & Health department at South Charleston, West Virginia. It reports that a number of asbestosis illnesses had been recorded there since the start of 1980, that most cases were not…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 26, 1981
D. T. Watters to I. P. Blackwood et al. on Potential Health Risks of Insulation Materials (Perlite Insulation Specification 4) (1981)
Memorandum from D. T. Watters, June 26, 1981, on potential health risks of insulation materials Union Carbide Chemicals/Plastics Material Specification for Insulation 4M/4A/4SS (perlite), December 1980, pages 1-2 of 2
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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 · October 22, 1986
Manhar A. Patel to S. W. Clark on Revised Practice SH-256 and the OSHA Asbestos Standards, with Attached Standards Comparison (1986)
Internal Union Carbide memo in which an industrial hygienist reviewed the September 1986 revision of Safety/Health Technology Manual practice SH-256 against OSHA's amended asbestos standards effective July 21. He explained the difference between…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 6, 1975
Internal Memo to R. J. Taylor Summarizing 1974 OSHA Inspections at the Texas City Plant (1975)
Internal correspondence dated January 6, 1975, listing three OSHA inspections at the Texas City Plant in 1974: two special inspections for VCM (vinyl chloride monomer) monitoring and one complaint inspection about a road condition. It records that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 8, 1972
F. Williams to R. J. Taylor on Respirators and Air Sampling for Asbestos Insulation Demolition at the Technical Center (1972)
Internal correspondence from the industrial hygienist to R. J. Taylor, responding to Taylor's October 27, 1972 memorandum "Asbestos Guideline Clarification." It recommends seven practices for protecting Technical Center personnel from asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 22, 1986
Manhar A. Patel to Distribution List Transmitting T. E. Hanning's Summary of the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard (1986)
Internal Union Carbide memo from the Technical Center industrial hygienist reporting that OSHA amended its asbestos standard, 29 CFR 1910.1001, effective July 21, 1986. It lowered the permissible exposure limit from 2.0 to 0…