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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 · 2026
Extensive Bilateral Pleural Plaques: A Cadaveric Case Study
…male body donor dissected during preclinical medical education at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He had worked for many years as a steam fitter in Union, New Jersey, and died of a glioblastoma…
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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 · 1969
Partnership for Occupational Health
…Selikoff, not a formal research paper. The author described all members of two insulation workers' union locals in the New York and New Jersey area: 632 men who were members on January 1, 1943, and 890…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Airway obstruction in asbestos-exposed shipyard workers: with and without irregular opacities
This cross-sectional study measured breathing function by spirometry in 296 male Caucasian boilermakers from a Jacksonville, Florida union local. All had been exposed to asbestos in shipyards, mostly in ship repair, at least 15 years…
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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 · 1983
Mesothelioma among machinists in railroad and other industries
…29 cancer deaths, there were nine mesotheliomas and one endothelioma of the pleura. Additional retrospective surveys of deaths among members of the railroad lodges of the international union, together with the cohort study, identified a total…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
The relationship between respiratory impairment and asbestos-related pleural abnormality in an active work force
This cross-sectional study examined 110 construction insulators aged 35 and older who were still at work, drawn from a Quebec insulators' union local. The authors asked whether asbestos-related pleural abnormality, especially isolated pleural plaques…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Mortality patterns among electrical workers employed in the U.S. construction industry, 1982-1987
…mainly construction electricians, who died in the United States in 1982 to 1987. It used union death benefit records and death certificates. Records of members dropped for unpaid dues were not kept, so the authors used…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Pulmonary functional impairment from years of arc welding
…welders who had worked at construction sites and power plants but never in shipyards. They were volunteers from two midwestern locals of the boilermakers' union. Men with signs of asbestosis on chest X-rays were excluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Lung function in insulation workers
…materials (rock and glass wool), the members of the Copenhagen Union of Insulation Workers were invited to participate in a study based on a health examination that included lung function tests. Three hundred and forty men…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Industrial hygiene review of three manufacturing facilities in Senegal: findings and key questions
…cement formulating facility, chosen by the Senegalese Ministry of Labor. The review used structured interviews with management and union representatives and walkthrough inspections with limited monitoring of noise, total dust and volatile organic compounds. The article…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: II. Radiologic signs of asbestosis among active workers
…metropolitan area sheet metal workers found that 29.3% of the workers with 20 years or more of union membership (a surrogate for years of exposure) had radiologic abnormalities characteristic of parenchymal and/or pleural asbestosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis and impaired lung function
…test results in asbestos-exposed sheet metal workers. In 1986 the sheet metal workers' union offered medical examinations to members with at least 25 years in the trade. The authors analysed 1,211 male workers from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
CT scan screening for lung cancer: risk factors for nodules and malignancy in a high-risk urban cohort
…between 2001 and 2010, and some were followed for up to 10 years. Some were referred by a utility workers' union. The authors considered 171 participants (14.5%) to have confirmed asbestos exposure, based on both…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Analysis of mortality patterns and workers' compensation awards among asbestos insulation workers in Ontario
This study examined deaths and workers' compensation awards among 1,064 members of Local 95, the Ontario local of the asbestos insulation workers' union, followed to the end of 1985. Poor identifying information meant some deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Interventions in high-risk occupational cohorts: a cross-sectional demonstration project
…Health from 1980 to 1984. One project involved about 1,200 workers, mostly Flint Glass Workers' Union members, potentially exposed to asbestos from 1964 to 1972 at a glass and insulation plant in Port Allegany, Pennsylvania…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung health among boilermakers in Edmonton, Alberta
…boilermakers with 20 or more years of union membership and 100 telephone workers. Posteroanterior chest radiographs were evaluated by two experienced chest physicians, with a third arbitrating disagreed films. Union members were further categorized as boilermakers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Asbestos disease in Australia: looking forward and looking back
…and practice in Australia and introduced related pieces in the same journal issue. They described the trade union campaign to "Make James Hardie Pay", which ended when James Hardie shareholders approved a compensation fund in February…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Worker produced health education material for the construction trades
…of photonovel respondents, versus 40% of NCI booklet respondents, said they thought they would become more active in union health and safety activities. Photonovel readers were much less likely to confuse asbestosis and cancer. NCI booklet…