34 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Worker-Sponsored Survey for Asbestosis: Detection of Occupational Lung Disease Without a Control Group
A local union requested this survey at a small northeastern Massachusetts plant making asbestos wall board. The authors examined 57 white male workers by questionnaire, breathing tests and limited physical examination. The company refused to release…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Health hazards of asbestos exposure
This conference paper followed asbestos insulation union members in the United States and Canada. It analyzed 12,051 men who reached 20 or more years since entering the trade: 77,391 man-years and 1,946…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Surface charge and hemolytic activity of asbestos
…represented by zeta potential, and hemolytic activity were measured for the five asbestos reference samples of the International Union against Cancer (UICC). Zeta potentials in distilled water at pH 7.4 for chrysotiles A and B…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Positive health accounting: occupational health at the economic crossroads
This 1979 article by Charles Levinson of a trade union federation, the ICEF, was a commentary, not a research study. It reported no new data on any group of workers. The author argued that managers, governments…
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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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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Effect of asbestos on lipid peroxidation in the red cells
In vitro exposure of red cells to vie International Union against Cancer (UICC) standard reference asbestos samples resulted in an increase of thiobarbituric acid substances. Chrysotiles developed the largest amounts of lipid peroxides, followed by anthophyllite…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
The organic content of international reference samples of asbestos
This laboratory chemical analysis examined the oily organic material on five reference asbestos samples supplied by the Union International Contre le Cancer (U.I.C.C.): anthophyllite, amosite, Rhodesian chrysotile ("Chrysotile A"), crocidolite and Canadian chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Worker-sponsored survey for asbestosis: detection of occupational lung disease without a control group
…a cross-sectional survey, requested by a local union, of 57 white male workers at a small northeastern Massachusetts plant making asbestos wall board. The group was 52 of 56 active union members, three retirees and…
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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 · 1979
Based on available data, can we project an acceptable standard for industrial use of asbestos? Perhaps
This is a commentary, not a research study, by an author from the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO, published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. It reported no new data…
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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 · 1979
Based on available data, can we project an acceptable standard for industrial use of asbestos? Perhaps
This was not a research study but a commentary by the author, of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, on whether an acceptable standard for industrial asbestos exposure could be set. It reported no new data…
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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 · 1970
A labor-management occupational health service in a construction industry
…13 western US states, run jointly by their union and contractors. It was a program description rather than a new study. The region had about 2,200 insulating workers in 11 local unions. Citing their own…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Surface charge and asbestos toxicity
…to their ability to burst red blood cells (haemolytic activity). They tested two reference samples of the International Union against Cancer: chrysotile A and the amphibole crocidolite. The fibres were soaked (leached) in Tyrode's solution…
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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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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Health Hazard Surveillance by Industrial Workers
…local unions, including workers in asbestos products fabrication. The authors gave examples. At one asbestos products plant, the company refused a physician representing the workers access to chest X-rays it had taken. The union and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Criteria For The Diagnosis And Grading Of Asbestosis
…including asbestosis, in autopsy and lung biopsy material. It extended a scheme from a 1965 working group of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). The authors proposed recording two things. The first was the extent of…
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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…