234 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 12
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Calidria
Calidria is the trade name for a short-fiber chrysotile asbestos product mined and processed by Union Carbide Corporation from a deposit near Coalinga, California. It was marketed from the 1960s through the 1980s as a…
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New Idria
…the California site was first developed for cinnabar (mercury) mining. Asbestos production at the adjacent Coalinga deposit began in 1959 under the Union Carbide Corporation, which operated the open-pit mine until 1983. Significance in Asbestos…
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State-of-the-Art Defense
…Beshada v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (N.J. 1982), later history and later decisions citing it UC-1987: Responses of Union Carbide Corporation to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories, In re Asbestos Litigation, Cameron County, Texas (1995), pp…
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amphibole hypothesis
…undated), p. 2 UC-3937: Asbestos International Association Director-General's Notes for Associations (1980), p. 17 UC-5123: Union Carbide Corporation's Responses to Plaintiffs' Standard Interrogatories, In re Asbestos Cases, Boulder County, Colorado (2002)…
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J. P. Stevens & Co.
…p. 4 J-M News Pictorial, July–August 1961, p. 17 UC-1039: Union Carbide Corporation Annual Report for 1966 (1967), p. 22 Travelers Asbestos Seminar Booklet (1980): Atlas Asbestos Company Product Information, p. 9 Travelers…
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Crown Cork & Seal Company
…and pipe covering.1011 A trade-association manual from about 1956 lists Mundet among the members of the Magnesia Insulation Manufacturers Association.12 Union Carbide's 1962 insulation manual describes several Mundet products and their makeup…
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Haveg 41
…resistant material of asbestos and resin that the Haveg Corporation of Delaware molded into pipe, tanks, ducts, towers and other equipment for chemical plants. A 1968 Union Carbide laboratory report found its filler to be amphibole…
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Haveg 60
…Corporation of Delaware molded into pipe, tanks, ducts and towers for chemical plants. Our library holds no document describing Haveg 60 itself, so its resin and filler are not known from our sources. The Union Carbide…
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Threshold Limit Value (TLV)
…p. 12 UC-1988: Union Carbide's Supplemental Responses to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories, Cameron County, Texas (1995), p. 59 Comments of Johns-Manville Corporation With Respect to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Occupational Exposure to Asbestos (1976…
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Coalinga District
…States. From the 1960s through the 1970s, open-pit mines in this district, most notably those operated by Union Carbide, produced short-fiber chrysotile asbestos that was shipped nationwide for use in joint compounds, paints, plastics…
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Acetylene Cylinder Reinforcement
…pathway can connect a diagnosis to specific manufacturers (such as Linde, Airco, Union Carbide, and others) whose cylinder fillers were known to contain asbestos, and it can expand the list of responsible parties beyond the more…
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Selikoff Studies
…pp. 150–152 Celotex's Answers to Plaintiff's Master Interrogatories in Laird v. Celotex (1984), p. 37 UC-2045: Union Carbide's Objections and Responses to Interrogatories, Garcia v. Owens-Corning (2001), p. 9 UC…
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Asbestos Workers Union
…Locals 12 and 32) and definitively linked their work to mesothelioma and lung cancer. If you or a family member belonged to this union, your local hall may still have records identifying the specific job sites…
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Gencor
Gencor (General Mining Union Corporation) was a major South African mining conglomerate that owned and operated several asbestos mines, most notably crocidolite (blue asbestos) and amosite (brown asbestos) operations in the Northern Cape and Northern Transvaal…
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Passaic County Medical Society
…New Jersey, an industrial region that was home to major asbestos textile operations including the Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) and Johns-Manville facilities. The society appears in asbestos history because of presentations and correspondence…
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Paterson Plant
…asbestos textile and insulation factory in Paterson, New Jersey, operated at different times by Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) and later Raybestos-Manhattan. From the 1930s into the 1950s, workers there spun and wove raw…
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Seidman 1979 Study
The Seidman 1979 Study is a landmark epidemiological investigation by Dr. Herbert Seidman and colleagues that followed workers at the Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) amosite insulation plant in Paterson, New Jersey, employed between 1941…
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Asbestos Strike of 1949
…which began in February 1949, centered on wage demands, union recognition, and workers' demands for the elimination of asbestos dust inside the mines and mills. It is widely regarded as a turning point in Quebec labor…
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Cape Province
…after the Cape of Good Hope, the region was formally the Cape Colony under British rule and became Cape Province at the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. Commercial crocidolite mining in the…
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Business Records Exception
…a company's products were shipped to a particular shipyard, plant or job site; employment and union records can place a worker there; and hospital records document the diagnosis. Company records such as plant medical files…