11 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Mortality experience of insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1943--1976
…New Jersey union locals on January 1, 1943, followed to December 31, 1976, plus 833 men who joined these locals in 1943-1962. The other comprised all 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in…
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Book · 1977
Cancer risk of asbestos exposure (1977)
…the author's group's earlier studies of insulation and amosite-factory workers. Among 632 New York-area insulation union members on the 1943 rolls, 89 had died of lung cancer by the end of 1974…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Relation Of Cigarette Smoking To Risk Of Death Of Asbestos-Associated Disease Among Insulation Workers In The United States
…Selikoff followed two groups of asbestos insulation workers to examine smoking and asbestos-associated deaths. Among 370 New York-area union members followed 1963 to 1971, 41 of 283 regular cigarette smokers died of lung cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Cancer Risk Of Insulation Workers In The United States
…insulation materials. The groups were 370 surviving members of New York-New Jersey insulation workers' union locals, 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on 1 January 1967, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Lung cancer and mesothelioma during prospective surveillance of 1249 asbestos insulation workers, 1963-1974
…for 1249 union asbestos insulation workers in the New York metropolitan area, followed from January 1, 1963 to December 31, 1974. They were 370 older men who were already union members by 1942 and 879 younger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…turnover. About one in 500 private-shipyard workers was an "asbestos worker," but other trades also had opportunity for exposure. They followed 440 insulation workers in nine shipyard union locals from 1967 through 1976. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Asbestos Exposure Of Brake Repair Workers In The United States
…particles had the features of fosterite, a heat-altered form of chrysotile. Second, the authors examined 104 union vehicle maintenance workers who volunteered, and analyzed 90 with over 10 years' work. Of these 90, 24 (27%)…
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Article · 1977
Environmental Mistakes: Responsibilities, Opportunities (1977)
…left out people who were not "asbestos workers" but were significantly exposed in shipyards or at home through fibers on a worker's clothes. In the Insulation Workers union of 18,000 members, the author wrote…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Partnership For Prevention: The Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program
…1969, all but one among the 283 cigarette smokers. In a survey, only 4% of union members said they always wore masks on dusty jobs. The article described new respirators, cement mixing bags, dust-suppressing sprays…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Epidemiology of gastrointestinal cancer
…had one bronchogenic carcinoma death. The 283 cigarette smokers had 41 against 3.3 expected. Among 17,800 union insulation workers in the United States and Canada, followed from 1967 to 1971, colon and rectal cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos exposure, cigarette smoking and death rates
…effects of cigarette smoking and occupational asbestos exposure on death rates. Members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada answered smoking questionnaires in 1966, and 17,800 men alive on January 1…