Corning Refractories — Corning: public asbestos record and work-history research
This page starts with a specific public record, then separates what that record documents from what still has to be investigated about an individual person.
What the public record documents
A documented starting point
A NYSDEC site-characterization report describes a pre-demolition asbestos survey of the Refractories building and fixed equipment. The report states that several asbestos-containing materials were identified and abatement recommendations were made.
What this record does — and does not — tell us
Documented
A NYSDEC site-characterization report states that a Phase II environmental assessment included a pre-demolition asbestos survey of the Corning Refractories building and fixed equipment and that the survey identified several asbestos-containing materials with abatement recommendations.
Scope
Corning Refractories building and fixed equipment addressed by the cited pre-demolition survey and later site-characterization report.
Not established
Does not establish an individual worker’s exposure, the condition of materials during earlier employment, causation, or liability.
Questions that move the investigation forward
Which Corning facility or building is actually remembered?
Use the answer to narrow place, time, task, equipment and corroborating records.
What years, department, trade and tasks place the person there?
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What fixed equipment, piping, furnaces, refractory systems or maintenance work was nearby?
Use the answer to narrow place, time, task, equipment and corroborating records.
Can historical facility, coworker, union or contractor records corroborate the memory?
Use the answer to narrow place, time, task, equipment and corroborating records.
Primary source
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