140 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 7
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · August 20, 2015
Oddo v. Asbestos Corporation Ltd. (2015)
…affirmed Ford's liability, reallocated fault to Ford 65%, Union Carbide 25% and Higgins 10%, and amended the survival damages award against Ford, so the plaintiffs lost against Southern Talc but kept their judgment against Ford…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 31, 2006
Thomas v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2006)
The surviving spouse and five adult children of Namon Joshua, Jr., a carpenter who died of lung cancer in 2001, sued several premises owners. He also had asbestos-related pleural plaques. He worked for contractors at the Waterford power plants in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 3, 1969 · page 8
Matthew M. Swetonic (Johns-Manville) to J. A. Riddle on Sending Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program Reports (1969)
In the document: …Dr. George James. Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine: J. B. Jobe. Vice President of JohnsManville Corporation; Albert E. Hutchinson, General President of the Asbestos Workers Union. and Dr. Murray C. Brown, then Director, Bureau…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 2, 1947 · Program for October 3, 1947, and participant list · page 3
Letters on the Sixth Saranac Symposium, with Its Compensation Program and Participant List (1947)
In the document: …N. J. Ber por ation, North < N Cux. Mir. J. L., Duro Tos n Corporations New York, N. Y. Cranch, Dr. A. G, Union Carbide & Carbo r, Rochester, N. Y. AR Cuedi, Mrs. M. R…
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1971 · page 323
Johns-Manville Papers on Worker Health, Pneumoconiosis Counseling and the OSHA Asbestos Standard, a Compilation (1947–1974)
In the document: …American Bilt Rite Rubber Company = GAF Corporation Jr. Jackson = Johns-Manville Co rporat ion Johnson A. C. R. A. G. W. Nickel R. Stetson = Union Carbide Corpo ration Hooker Neumann = The Flintkote…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 22, 2024 · in the opinion
Williams v. JM Manufacturing Company, Inc. (2024)
…was exposed to asbestos from asbestos-cement pipe supplied by J-MM. Relying on Izell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 962 (Izell), J-MM contends that Cornelius only raised a "mere possibility…
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Person · People and organizations
Edmund M. Fenner
…of environmental services (1978); chaired the Asbestos Information Association/North America's Standards and Technical Committee in 1974. Reported on company dust sampling and fiber limits, proposed product warning-label rules, and corresponded with Union Carbide.
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Company document · WARD Documents · August 10, 1982
Fran Swaney to Pam Johnson on J-M Customer Numbers for Texas Contractors and Plants, with Brown & Root Sales Printouts (1982)
…Zachry and others), Brown & Root of Houston, and the Union Carbide plant at Seadrift, the Celanese plant at Bishop and the Du Pont plant at Victoria. Handwritten answers give numbers for five companies and "None" for…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 15, 1975
W. B. Reitze and J. T. Vanderveen on Replacing Thermobestos with Thermo-12 in Brazil (1975)
…Thermobestos was J-M's asbestos calcium silicate pipe and block insulation; its dustiness was documented in the 1960s (Union Carbide's 1962 dust surveys). In 1977 Reitze found Thermobestos still being made and installed in…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 11, 1977 · Asbestos Information Association booklet: Asbestos and Health · page 26
W. A. Cooper to Dr. Paul Kotin on the History of J-M's Employee Education About Asbestos (1977)
In the document: …Asbestos Corp. The Flintkote Company H. K. Porter Company, Thermoid Div. GAF Corp. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. Jim Walter Corp. Supradur Manufacturing Corp. Johns-Manville Corp. Union Carbide Corp., Mining and Metals Division ; Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company
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Company document · Motley 1000 · 1962
Johns-Manville File on William S. McKinney's Ohio Workmen's Compensation Claim (1962)
…of Ohio Bureau of Workmen's Compensation in 1962. McKinney alleged that he contracted asbestosis in both lungs while employed by J-M in removing insulation materials at Union Carbide's Bakelite Company in Marietta, Ohio…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 10, 2013 · in the opinion
Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2013)
…The raw asbestos supplied by Special Electric to Johns-Manville constitutes a "product" under the negligence and strict liability provisions of California law. (Stewart v. Union Carbide Corp. (2010) 190 Cal.App.4th 23, 29 (Stewart)…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 15, 1957
Union Complaints and J-M Correspondence on Dust in the Manville Textile "A" Building (1957)
…in "A" Building. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Edward Macko (President of a local Manville labor union) writes to M.F…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 11, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Union Asbestos & Rubber Enclosing Gardner's First Progress Report (1937)
What it shows Union Asbestos & Rubber was one of the companies that signed the November 1936 agreement to pay for Gardner's work at the Saranac Laboratory, under which the results belonged to the sponsors and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 22, 1968
W. L. Ruff's Notes of a Manville Union-Management Meeting on Dust, Noise and Examination Results (1968)
What it shows The union's complaint, recorded in the company's own notes, concerns a practice that runs through J-M's earlier papers: not telling workers what their examinations showed (see Dr. Kenneth Smith…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 14, 1971
C. L. Hite to B. Mulder on Waukegan's Red Slip Cases and the Union (1971)
What it shows Hite reports that union official Ben Foust expected a proposal that any worker moved to a lower-paying job because of a lung problem caused by asbestos or silica at work should keep…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 17, 1936
Vandiver Brown to Lewis Silverman of Union Asbestos & Rubber on the Air Hygiene Foundation (1936)
…Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: In a letter to L.J. Silverman (Union Asbestos and Rubber Company) dated 12/17/36, V…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 4, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Union Asbestos's Limit and Dr. Shull's Paper (1937)
…at Saranac Laboratory (the memorandum). Smaller firms were willing to join only for a small share: Union Asbestos & Rubber settled on $250 a year (Silverman's letter of January 6). The same letters passed along Gardner…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 2, 1952
C. J. O'Neill to Union Oil Company of California on Handling Hyflo Super-Cel (1952)
…Neill's October bulletin to salesmen. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Correspondence to Union Oil Company of California from C.J…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 30, 1961
C. L. Sheckler to All Industrial Relations Managers on Union Requests for Dust Count Records (1961)
…M complied with state rules and had adopted the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' Threshold Limit Values as its standard, and to report any request from a union, committee or individual to headquarters at once…