17 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 11, 1985
W. L. Thomas to W. E. Ballard and Others Calling a Meeting on the Asbestos Insulation Replacement Project, with J. G. Roy's No. 2 Steam Plant Proposal (1985)
A February 11, 1985 memorandum from W. L. Thomas called a February 21, 1985 meeting to plan an asbestos insulation replacement project at the South Charleston plant and attached a December 27, 1984 proposal by J. G. Roy. Roy's proposal outlined a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 19, 1983
W. C. Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents and Department Heads on OSHA Plan to Lower Asbestos Permissible Exposure Limits (1983)
A one-page internal memo from the South Charleston Plant, signed "Bill Young", forwarding to maintenance supervisors an attached article from Occupational Safety & Health Reporter dated April 14, 1983. The subject line is an OSHA plan to lower…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 27, 1985
J. G. Roy to J. F. Dodd on the Plant Project to Eliminate Asbestos Exposure at South Charleston (1985)
Memo from J. G. Roy to J. F. Dodd about a project to eliminate asbestos exposure at the South Charleston plant, starting with the No. 2 Steam Plant. It summarizes a February 21 kickoff meeting and a meeting with an insulating contractor, objects to…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 14, 1983
Bill Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents Forwarding OSHA Plans for Asbestos Exposure Limit Reduction (1983)
A one-page internal memo from the South Charleston Plant forwarding an attached report from OSHR on a planned OSHA reduction of the asbestos exposure limit. The memo says the proposed changes may affect the recipients' operations. Copies went to the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 25, 1985
I. L. Beckett to W. E. Ballard et al. on Minutes of the Asbestos Insulation Replacement Project, Phase I Meeting, South Charleston Plant (1985)
Memorandum giving minutes of a February 21, 1985 meeting on a project to repair and replace asbestos insulation at the South Charleston Plant. It records the 1985 funding limit, the choice of six departments to start with, the plan to use…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 16, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Stay of OSHA's Emergency Temporary Standard for Asbestos (1983)
A one-page memorandum reporting that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Asbestos Information Association's request to stay OSHA's emergency temporary standard on occupational asbestos exposure. It states that the order bars OSHA from…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 5, 1984
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on Court Ruling Disallowing the OSHA Asbestos Emergency Temporary Standard (1984)
A one-page memorandum from W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson, with copies to others, reproducing a summary from Occupational Safety and Health Reporter. The summary reports that the Fifth Circuit struck down OSHA's emergency asbestos standard. Young…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard at South Charleston, with OSHA Exposure Estimates and Emergency Standard Text (1983)
A December 15, 1983 memorandum from W. C. Young summarizes the points of OSHA's emergency temporary asbestos standard (effective November 4, 1983) that would affect plant operations. For each change (the 0.5 f/cc limit, employee training, respirator…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 9, 1982
W. C. Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents on Asbestos Exposure Monitoring at South Charleston Plant (1982)
Internal memo stating that a plant safety procedure requires employee asbestos exposure monitoring on significant jobs handling asbestos-containing insulation. It says OSHA requires supplied-air respirators unless exposure limits are shown not to be…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 15, 1983
W. C. Young to T. G. Swanson on the Amended OSHA Asbestos Standard (1983)
Memorandum summarizing the points of OSHA's amended emergency temporary asbestos standard, effective November 4, 1983, most likely to affect plant operations. It lists the changes (the permissible exposure limit cut from 2 to 0.5 f/cc, training, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 5, 1987
L. B. Hewitt to Plant Department Heads on the Asbestos Insulation Project at the South Charleston Plant, with Attached Project Plan and Schedule (1987)
Memo from L. B. Hewitt to plant department heads describing a multi-phase project to remove asbestos insulation at the South Charleston plant, with the criteria used to set priorities and the contractor, Powerhouse Equipment Company. Attachments…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 4, 1984
Wayne E. Williams to Maintenance Area Superintendents on Asbestos Safety Meeting Topic for May 9, 1984, with Leader's Guide (1984)
A May 4, 1984 memo from Wayne E. Williams to maintenance area superintendents naming Asbestos Material Removal and Disposal as the topic of the May 9, 1984 monthly safety meeting. It encloses a Leader's Guide, answer key, revised handling checklist…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 4, 1984
Wayne E. Williams to Maintenance Area Superintendents on the May 9, 1984 Safety Meeting Topic of Asbestos Material Removal and Disposal, with Leader's Guide and Asbestos Inventory (1984)
A May 4, 1984 memo from Wayne E. Williams to maintenance area superintendents set the topic of the May 9, 1984 monthly safety meeting as asbestos material removal and disposal. It enclosed a leader's guide, a 10-question true/false Asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 14, 1983
Bill Young to Maintenance Area Superintendents Forwarding OSHA Plans Asbestos Exposure Limit Reduction Report (1983)
A one-page Union Carbide South Charleston Plant internal memo transmitting an attached Occupational Safety & Health Reporter article on OSHA's plans to lower the asbestos exposure limit. The attached BNA report (July 7, 1983) states…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 22, 1985
A. E. Wood to All Department Heads on Use of Non-Asbestos Gaskets at South Charleston (1985)
Memorandum from A. E. Wood reporting that the GR shop had used non-asbestos gaskets on pump heads since 1983 to decrease asbestos exposure, and that inspected non-asbestos gaskets showed binder attack by process chemicals. It sets out an action plan…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 15, 1985
D. J. McNeil to W. E. Ballard and Others on Use of Asbestos/Non-Asbestos Gasket and Valve Packing Materials at South Charleston (1985)
Memorandum reporting a 5/10/85 meeting on use of asbestos and non-asbestos gasket and valve packing materials at the South Charleston location. It records the earlier effort to discontinue asbestos materials after the health concern, the E&TS…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 18, 1988
R. B. Janik to Maintenance Superintendents and Turf Department Heads on Asbestos Gasket Disposal (1988)
Internal correspondence from the Texas City shop superintendent instructing maintenance and turf department personnel to handle asbestos gaskets as asbestos, keep them wet during and after removal, and deliver them in marked asbestos bags to the…