299 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 6 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Evaluation of selection bias in a cross-sectional survey
…insulation workers who took part in a medical survey differed from those who did not. In 1967 the authors enrolled 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1967
Mortality experience in a group of asbestos workers
This study looked at deaths among 152 asbestos insulators in New York state who had at least 15 years of exposure to asbestos dust. The authors used union records, death certificates, physicians' and hospital records, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestos disease screening by non-specialists: results of an evaluation
…workers. These workers had been exposed to asbestos in commercial building construction and renovation. The authors reviewed records of 800 union members examined between May 1982 and May 1983, using OSHA rules as a minimal benchmark…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Documenting the asbestos story in Sarnia
…clinic in Windsor, Ontario, expressed its concerns about the health of former workers at a foundry and insulation plant in Sarnia to the Canadian Auto Workers union early in 1998. The workers suffered cancer, respiratory 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 · 1991
Dangerous and cancer-causing properties of products and chemicals in the oil-refining and petrochemical industries. Part IX: Asbestos exposure and analysis of exposures
…chest X-ray abnormalities in refinery and petrochemical workers, and historical reports of asbestos hazards. In 1990 a questionnaire was mailed to Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers local unions representing many companies, including Mobil, Chevron, Shell…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Re: "Changing attitudes and opinions regarding asbestos and cancer 1934-1965"
…not an original research study. Its author, the administrator of an insulators' union health program, was responding to Dr. Philip Enterline's 1991 review of how scientists' opinions on asbestos and cancer changed between 1934 and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Histologic type of lung cancer and asbestos exposure
…asbestos exposure. The authors reviewed 855 lung cancer cases in total (747 men and 108 women), from three New Jersey hospitals and from a study of insulation workers union members, which supplied 67 cases. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Asbestos production increases despite WHO opposition
…asbestos production had not declined despite national bans and World Health Organization (WHO) opposition. It stated that more than 40 countries, including all European Union members, had banned chrysotile (white asbestos), the only form still mined…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Neoplasia among insulation workers in the United States with special reference to intra-abdominal neoplasia
…an extension of the authors' earlier report, followed members of New York Local 12 and Newark Local 32 of the insulation workers' union. The authors described the men as having had very light and intermittent exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: proportional mortality update
…workers. They examined death certificates for 331 white male members of Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association whose deaths were reported to the union benefit fund between January 1983 and October 1986. Deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos-related radiographic abnormalities in elevator construction workers
…screening held in November 1988. The screening covered members of the Philadelphia Local of the International Union of Elevator Constructors who had belonged to the union for at least 20 years. Ninety-one men took part…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Radiographic abnormalities in asbestos insulators: effects of duration from onset of exposure and smoking. Relationships of dyspnea with parenchymal and pleural fibrosis
This cross-sectional study examined chest X-rays and shortness of breath in U.S. asbestos insulation workers from a union-based cohort. Examinations took place in 19 U.S. cities from November 1981 to November…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Man-made respirable-sized organic fibers: what do we know about their toxicological profiles?
…are identified and some fundamental tenets of fiber toxicology are discussed. In addition, the European Union, in their recent consideration for banning chrysotile asbestos fibers, evaluated some organic fiber substitutes and compared them to the hazards…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Assessing truck driver exposure at the World Trade Center disaster site: personal and area monitoring for particulate matter and volatile organic compounds during October 2001 and April 2002
…as well as area monitoring that was conducted directly on site during October 2001 and April 2002. In cooperation with a local labor union, 54 drivers (October) and 15 drivers (April) were recruited on site to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
The international chrysotile asbestos scandal
…the Alliance Against Asbestos, a coalition of environmental, health care, labor union and asbestos-victim groups, and it reports no new medical data. It opposed a revision of a 1986 asbestos guidance document, Environmental Health Criteria…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Determinants of restrictive lung function in asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis
…lung volumes. The authors studied 24 sheet metal workers, chosen from 1,211 screened in a union program, all never or former smokers with no lung scarring on chest X-ray: seven with normal pleura, nine…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestotic radiological abnormalities among United States merchant marine seamen
…United States merchant marine seamen, taken in 1985-7. Members on union lists of about 10,000 active and retired seamen were invited for an x-ray, and roughly half came. One experienced B reader read…
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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 · 1995
Asbestos-related diseases and asbestos types used in the former GDR
…insulation and fire prevention material, etc. in the large-scale chemical industry. Chrysotile was predominantly imported from the former Soviet Union, partly from Canada. Very small amounts of amphiboles came from Mozambique, but they were not…