19 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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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 · July 9, 1971
R. W. Schwartz Memo Forwarding Minutes of the GE/Hooker/Union Carbide Safety Meeting on Asbestos Handling (1971)
…July 9, 1971 cover memo sent a distribution list the minutes of a June 18, 1971 safety meeting among General Electric, Hooker Chemical and Union Carbide, and pointed readers to the asbestos paragraphs. The minutes, prepared…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner to C. U. Dernehl and N. H. Ketcham Forwarding Johns-Manville Safety Precautions for Asbestos Fibres (1969)
Cover letter from R. E. Joyner, M.D. to Dr. Dernehl and Mr. Ketcham forwarding attached letters on asbestos fibre safety precautions and noting he advised Texas City people to contact the company rather than the government. The attachment is a March…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 17, 1968
Fred Williams to Dr. T. G. Day and Others on Preliminary Air Sampling Results for Asbestos (1968)
Memorandum from the industrial hygienist reporting preliminary air sampling for asbestos taken during pipe-insulation work at the Technical Center on April 24, 1968. It summarizes the TLV, disease background, sampling method and results, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1969
R. E. Joyner to C. U. Dernehl Transmitting Consumer Products Division Memo on Asbestos Fibre Safety Precautions (1969)
…N. H. Ketcham, 31 March 1969, forwarding attached letters Union Carbide Consumer Products Division (Quality & Specifications, Cleveland) memo of March 18, 1969 to plant managers quoting Johns-Manville letter on asbestos fibre safety precautions, signed P…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 24, 1965
J. D. Young to K. B. Lanham on Dust Sampling of "Carey-Temp" Insulation Block Cutting (1965)
Internal correspondence from Industrial Hygiene reporting on a dust sampling series run in the Insulation Fabrication Shop while a head grinder machine cut "Carey-Temp" insulation block. It said the dust-exposure health hazard of the operation was…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 24, 1955
J. D. Young to K. B. Lanham on Dust Sampling of "Carey-Temp" Insulation Block Cutting (1955)
Internal Chemicals Division memo from Industrial Hygiene at the Institute Plant to the Insulation Fabrication Shop. It reported results of dust sampling done while a head grinder machine cut "Carey-Temp" insulation block. It said the health hazard…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 7, 1972
J. E. Neff Trip Report on the NIOSH Course on Sampling and Evaluating Airborne Asbestos (1972)
…he attended November 20-22, 1972. It compares Union Carbide's Method 38C-29X4-R1 for sampling and counting asbestos fibers with NIOSH's procedure, notes NIOSH's revised fiber-counting rules, and records instructors' answers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 23, 1972
F. Williams to J. M. Butcher and Others Transmitting Industrial Hygiene Air Sampling Report on Insulating Work in Building 770 (1972)
A cover letter from F. Williams to four recipients forwards an Industrial Hygiene memorandum and data sheet on air sampling during the installation of asbestos-containing Kaylo pipe insulation and Johns Manville cement in Building 770 on August 2,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 17, 1972
D. E. Deese to Distribution on OSHA Respiratory Protection Requirement for Asbestos Tear-Out (1972)
Memo from the Gulf Coast Area senior industrial hygienist to a list of Union Carbide recipients reporting OSHA's interpretation of respiratory protection for asbestos tear-out or removal. It states that OSHA's Delbert Flowers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 17, 1971
R. W. Cope, Industrial Hygiene Survey of Air Analyses at the Bound Brook Plant, Including Asbestos Fiber Counts in Building 3 (1971)
Project report on air sampling done at Union Carbide's Bound Brook Plant on November 11 and 12, 1971, mainly for asbestos fibers in Building 3 during an experimental phenolic molding resin run. It also covers…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1, 1972
B. L. Murray to D. E. Deese and Others Transmitting the Asbestos Air Sampling Report Form, With a May 1972 Acetaldehyde Unit Dust Survey (1972)
A June 1, 1972 memo from B. L. Murray describing the form used to record general asbestos air sampling results and asking for comments on it. The attached Industrial Hygiene Evaluation and Survey sheet reports three fiber-count samples taken May 3,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 8, 1972
W. D. Neal to D. R. Albright on Asbestos Dust Measurements at the Bound Brook Plant (1972)
Internal memo from W. D. Neal of Environmental Protection reporting September and October 1972 airborne asbestos sampling in the Unit B and C work areas at Bound Brook, compared with OSHA limits. It lists housekeeping, bag-handling and work-habit…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1972
D. E. Deese Texas City Industrial Hygiene Memos and Letters on Asbestos Sampling and Monitoring (1972-1973)
Compilation of Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics industrial hygiene papers, mostly by D. E. Deese of the Gulf Coast Area. It holds a June 1972 memo transmitting an equipment list for personal asbestos dust sampling under…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1966
E. R. Kinkead and U. C. Pozzani, Mellon Institute Report 29-55 on the Fibrogenic Potential of Asbestos Products in Animal Injection Tests (1966)
Confidential Mellon Institute special report to Union Carbide's Chemicals Division on injection studies of three asbestos fiber products (CMS-100, JT-100 and JM-3K). Guinea pigs, rats and rabbits received intraperitoneal injections, and rats…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 11, 1966
E. R. Kinkead and U. C. Pozzani, Mellon Institute Report 29-55: Fibrogenic Potential of Asbestos Products by Injection in Guinea Pigs, Rats and Rabbits (1966)
Confidential Mellon Institute special report to the Union Carbide Chemicals Division on animal tests of three asbestos fiber samples (CMS-100, JT-100 and JM-3K). The fibers were injected intraperitoneally in guinea pigs, rats and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 19, 1951
A. G. Voress to N. H. Ketcham on Particulate Matter from Foamglas Insulation (1951)
Intercompany letter from the South Charleston Plant Works Laboratory reporting air sampling for particulate matter near men cutting and installing Foamglas insulation on brine lines in Building 109. It describes the sampling method (midget impinger,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1963
Union Carbide Chemicals Company Brownsville Plant Six-Month Industrial Hygiene Summary Report Correspondence (1963)
Four 1963 internal Union Carbide Chemicals Company letters about the semiannual industrial hygiene summary reports for the Brownsville, Texas plant. Two are requests from N. H. Ketcham for plant input (January and July 1963). Two are…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 23, 1963
R. J. Sexton to S. C. Giambruno Transmitting Industrial Hygiene Survey of Insulation Block Dust (Thermobestos, Kaylo, Carey-Temp) at the Construction Insulation Shop (1963)
Internal memo dated 23 October 1963 from Plant Medical Director R. J. Sexton to S. C. Giambruno, transmitting Industrial Hygiene Survey Report 63-IH-3-G-1 on dust from band-sawing "Thermobestos", "Kaylo" and "Carey-Temp" insulation blocks at the…