20 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1987
Union Carbide Asbestos Removal and Phase-Out Papers, Including T. E. Hanning Memo on Contractor Project Development Group (1987)
…Chemicals and Plastics Business Group, use of asbestos-containing materials in the work place Grafoil seminar outline and cover sheet (Union Carbide Specialty Products Group, Cleveland) Grafoil flexible graphite newsletter on special gasketing techniques Distribution list…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 1987
Union Carbide Memos and Draft C&P Program on Phasing Out Asbestos-Containing Materials in Company Workplaces (1986-1987)
Six pages of Union Carbide papers from 1986-1987 on asbestos in the company's own facilities. They include a 9/29/86 draft Chemicals and Plastics (C&P) program to phase out asbestos-containing materials…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1987
Union Carbide Industrial Hygiene Asbestos Monitoring Reports for Silanes, Polymers and Monomers Areas, Prepared by C. R. McMillan and T. L. Grittie (1987)
Twelve pages of industrial hygiene monitoring and results reports dated June and July 1987, covering airborne asbestos sampling taken February to April 1987 around insulation removal, glove bag use and asbestos insulation in Silanes, Polymers and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 7, 1987
T. L. Grittie, Industrial Hygiene Results on Asbestos Monitoring During Deinsulation of R-2 Reactor, Silanes (1987)
Industrial hygiene results dated April 7, 1987 for breathing-zone asbestos samples taken February 10, 1987 on insulators removing insulation from reactor R-2 in the Reactor Area of Silanes inside a negative pressure enclosure. The two samples…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 5, 1987
R. S. Newberger and J. K. Kyle Memos on Asbestos Disposal and Ceiling Contamination at the Sistersville, WV Plant (1987)
Two Union Carbide memoranda from the Sistersville, West Virginia plant. The first (May 5, 1987) reports that asbestos insulation was being stripped in the Silanes Department and that the burial location was full. The second (April…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 20, 1984
W. V. Summers, Jr. to A. W. Boyd and Wayne Watkins Transmitting G. W. Wulfert's Guidelines on Asbestos Insulation Repairs and Removal at Sistersville (1984)
A cover memo from W. V. Summers, Jr. dated July 20, 1984 forwards a July 18, 1984 memo from George W. Wulfert on the Sistersville Plant's guidelines for maintaining and removing asbestos insulation. The attached memo states the plant would not…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1984
C. A. Gorrell to Maintenance First Line Supervisors on Mandatory Asbestos Hazard Training, with Sistersville Plant Asbestos Script, Slides and MSA Respirator Statement (1984)
A November 29, 1984 memo from C. A. Gorrell told maintenance first-line supervisors that an asbestos hazards program was mandatory and had to be presented to their work groups before January 1, 1985. The exhibit also holds typed and handwritten…
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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 · November 7, 1986
D. A. Boggs to S. L. Curtis on Serious Asbestos Health Hazard in the Monomers North Rectification Area, Sistersville Plant (1986)
Memo from the Sistersville Plant industrial hygienist reporting exposed, deteriorating asbestos insulation on distillation columns in the Monomers North Rectification Area and chunks of asbestos material found on the ground up to about 60 yards…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1987
Industrial Hygiene Results: Asbestos Exposure of UCC Design and Construction Insulators Using a Glove Bag, Polymers I Tank Farm (1987)
Industrial hygiene report dated June 30, 1987, on personal air samples taken February 13, 1987 from two UCC Design and Construction insulators removing asbestos with a glove bag at the Polymers I tank farm. One sample (0.22 f/cc) exceeded the 0.2…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 26, 1986
T. L. Grittie to R. E. Crum and Others on Results of Asbestos Analysis of Lint from Vogue-Swift Washing Machines (1986)
…results of the lint analysis (Feb. 26, 1986), with handwritten note Kemron Environmental Services fiber identification qualitative analysis form for Union Carbide, sample 5610696 (scanned upside down) Borg-Warner inter-office correspondence dated Feb. 12, 1986…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 25, 1986
L. G. Moody to J. F. Dodd, W. V. Summers and G. W. Wulfert Transmitting Draft Outline of Project for Sistersville Plant Insulation Upgrade (1986)
A cover memo from L. G. Moody transmits a draft Outline of Project (dated June 23, 1986) for upgrading insulation at the Sistersville, WV plant, with an estimated cost of $1,500,000 capital and $600,000 expense over three years. The outline states…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1987
T. L. Grittie Industrial Hygiene Results on Glove Bag Asbestos Insulation Removal and Transite Roof Removal (1987)
Two Industrial Hygiene Results reports dated April 6, 1987. The first reports airborne fiber sampling of insulators removing asbestos insulation by the glove bag technique at the SSP Unit, K-36, and recommends closer scrutiny of the method. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 6, 1987
T. L. Grittie, Industrial Hygiene Results: Asbestos Exposure Monitoring of Pipefitter, Insulators and Operators (1987)
Five one-page 'Industrial Hygiene Results' reports, each dated April 6, 1987, giving airborne asbestos fiber results from January and February 1987 sampling. The sampled jobs were removal of an asbestos gasket, glove-bag removal of asbestos from a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 17, 1987
T. L. Gritzie Industrial Hygiene Personal Monitoring Reports for Asbestos Exposure at the Sistersville Plant (1987)
…Reports, all dated February 17, 1987, on asbestos exposure of unnamed workers at the Union Carbide Sistersville Plant. Samples were taken between October 1986 and January 1987 during insulation repair, stripping or removal and operator duties…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 18, 1986
T. L. Grittie to D. A. Boggs and Others on McCrone Analysis of Jaxsan Insulation Samples at Sistersville (1986)
Memo from T. L. Grittie transmitting McCrone Environmental Services' analysis of five Jaxsan insulation samples from the Sistersville plant. The memo reports 7-15% chrysotile asbestos, higher than the supplier had stated, and says the material…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 18, 1986
T. L. Grittie to D. A. Boggs and Others on McCrone Analysis of Jaxsan Insulation Samples for Asbestos (1986)
Memo from the Sistersville plant industrial hygienist transmitting McCrone Environmental Services' analysis of five Jaxsan samples. It reports 7-15% chrysotile, higher than the supplier indicated, says the IH group will monitor insulators during…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 18, 1987
Keith Purinton to G. W. Wulfert on the Insulation Upgrade Program at the Sistersville Plant (1987)
A memo from Keith Purinton at the Sistersville, West Virginia plant describing an insulation upgrade program, with items to be bid and contracted in three categories: obsolete or abandoned insulation that will not be replaced, insulation not…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1987
T. L. Grittie Industrial Hygiene Reports on Insulator Asbestos Exposure Monitoring at Monomers and Polymers II (1987)
Two industrial hygiene reports dated June 30, 1987 on airborne asbestos fiber sampling of insulators. The first covers patching insulation on a T-3 methyl chloride tank in Monomers (3/26/87 samples, all below the PEL); the second covers removing…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 1, 1987
T. L. Grittie Industrial Hygiene Results on Asbestos Monitoring of Insulators (Tank Farm 4) and the Poly I Control Room (1987)
Two industrial hygiene result sheets dated July 1, 1987, reporting asbestos air sampling done in April 1987. Page 1 covers insulators using glove bags to strip T-111 in Tank Farm 4 in Silanes, and page 2 covers the Poly I control room, where…