15 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 27, 1974
H. B. Rhodes to R. H. Mereness (AIA/NA) Enclosing Union Carbide Comments on Proposed EPA Asbestos Revisions (1974)
…B. Rhodes to the Asbestos Information Association/NA enclosing Union Carbide's basic comments on proposed EPA revisions to the asbestos emission regulations. The four-page enclosure suggests changes to the definitions of friable asbestos material…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 27, 1974
W. C. Thurber Memo on Strategy for Proposed New York State Asbestos Legislation, with April 1974 Letter to J. L. Myers and R. H. Mereness and Copy of Assembly Bill (1974)
Exhibit holds a June 27, 1974 memorandum by W. C. Thurber on a discussion with Don Ackerman about the proposed New York State asbestos bill and follow-up after the 1974 elections. It also holds Thurber's April 17, 1974 letter to J. L. Myers and R.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 27, 1974
Table of U.S. Asbestos Producers by Mine, Fiber Type and Estimated Annual Production (1974)
…fiber type, grade groups and remarks. It lists Union Carbide's Joe No. 5 Mine in San Benito Co., California at 20,000 tons of chrysotile and cites a 1973 Mineral Resources Branch publication (Ottawa) as…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 10, 1975
N. J. Hearn to W. C. Thurber on California Asbestos Spraying Law Amendments, with Related Thurber, Zupa and Rhodes Letters and Draft Exemption Letter (1975)
A set of Union Carbide papers from December 1974 to February 1975 about proposed amendments to California's 1974 law banning sprayed asbestos. In the top letter, N. J. Hearn told W. C. Thurber about meeting…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 28, 1976
H. B. Rhodes to R. H. Mereness Transmitting Draft Progress Report of the AIA/NA Ad Hoc Committee on Construction, with Related AIA/NA Memos (1976)
Cover letter from Harrison B. Rhodes of Union Carbide to the executive director of the Asbestos Information Association/North America, enclosing a draft cover letter and a draft progress report on the AIA/NA Ad Hoc…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 13, 1976
H. B. Rhodes to R. H. Mereness Forwarding Mt. Sinai Paper on Biological Effects of Short Fibers, with Mary S. Wolff's Transmittal and the Langer et al. Manuscript on Milled Calidria Chrysotile (1976)
Rhodes sent Mereness of the Asbestos Information Association a prepublication Mount Sinai paper on the biological effects of short fibers, suggesting it be passed to Hans Weill and not given general distribution. Behind it are Mary Wolff's June 7,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 31, 1977
John L. Myers to R. H. Mereness on a Reporter's Inquiry About Asbestos in Newsprint and the ANPA–Mt. Sinai/NIOSH Dispute (1977)
Myers wrote to the Asbestos Information Association's executive director about a March 22 call from a reporter, Mr. Swan, who was preparing an article on the dispute between the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA) and Mt. Sinai/NIOSH.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 27, 1976
H. B. Rhodes to G. G. Gabrielson, Jr. and J. Hebb on the Roy F. Weston, Inc. Asbestos Report of February 3, 1976, with Page-by-Page Commentary (1976)
Memorandum from Dr. H. B. Rhodes commenting on the Roy F. Weston, Inc. report of February 3, 1976, a study of technical feasibility and economic impact of a proposed OSHA asbestos rulemaking on the primary asbestos-using industries. The cover memo…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · January 6, 1976
Harrison B. Rhodes to Robert H. Mereness (Asbestos Information Association/NA) on OSHA Medical Examination Requirements and Dr. Weill's Surveillance Study (1976)
Letter confirming a December 29, 1975 telephone call with the AIA/NA executive director. It discusses OSHA's present and proposed requirements for annual medical examinations of asbestos-exposed employees and a research study mentioned by Dr. Hans…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Table of United States Asbestos Producers, Mines, Estimated Production and Fiber Type, with Copies-to List
…and locations, estimated annual production in short tons of fiber, fiber type, grade groups and remarks. Entries include Union Carbide Corporation's Joe No. 5 Mine in San Benito County, California (20,000 tons, chrysotile, open…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 1974
IOEH Newsletter No. 37 from P. V. Pelnar, with McGill Report on Health Surveillance in Asbestos Workers (1974)
…report, 'Health surveillance in asbestos workers', first page Enclosure 7 cover letter from Becklake and Ducic to QAMA, clinic governors and unions, December 19, 1973 Second page of the McGill report on lung function tests, questionnaire…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 26, 1977
Hans Weill, M.D., to Wendell B. Alcorn, Jr., on the Medical Literature Linking Asbestos and Lung Cancer (1977)
…judgment of how strong the evidence for an asbestosis/lung cancer association would appear to medical practitioners, from "possible" to "probable" to "proven." The first copy bears a Union Carbide Metals Division received stamp (Nov. 30…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 14, 1975
J. H. Marsh to N. Hendry and Others on the XVIII International Congress on Occupational Health, Brighton (1975)
Memo from J. H. Marsh reporting on the XVIII International Congress on Occupational Health (Brighton, England, September 15-18, 1975) and a meeting of the International Standing Committee. It summarizes papers on mesothelioma, fiber-counting…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 5, 1974
Harry R. Mason (NY Board of Standards and Appeals) to R. H. Mereness on Proposed Asbestos Amendment to Industrial Code Rule 12 (1974)
Letter from the chairman of the New York Board of Standards and Appeals acknowledging the Asbestos Information Association's February 22, 1974 letter on the asbestos threshold limit in a proposed amendment to Industrial Code Rule 12. It states that…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 20, 1974
R. H. Mereness to AIA Members forwarding Dr. Irving J. Selikoff's Answers to Thirteen Questions (1974)
A 20 May 1974 Asbestos Information Association memorandum to members enclosing Dr. Irving J. Selikoff's 14 May 1974 letter, which answers 13 questions put to him by the AIA board. The letter addresses crocidolite versus chrysotile hazard, fiber…