299 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 8 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Asbestos and cancer: an early warning to the British TUC
The author, a lawyer at the University of Birmingham, examined Trades Union Congress (TUC) archives held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The archives related to the drafting of Britain's Asbestos Industry Regulations…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Banning Asbestos in New Zealand, 1936-2016, an 80-Year Long Saga
…the asbestos sufferers, their families and support groups. At the political level, there were the activities of progressive trade union groups representing the hazardous trades, such as labourers, construction workers and demolition workers, and at a…
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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 · 2015
From Awareness to Action: The Community of Sarnia Mobilizes to Protect its Workers from Occupational Disease
…and perseverance. We found that improvements in occupational health and safety came from persistently communicating a clearly defined issue ("asbestos exposure causes cancer") and having an engaged community that collaborated with union leadership. Notable successes included…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Biological Effects Of Asbestos
…by Selikoff, Churg and Hammond, studied the 1,522 men in the New York and New Jersey insulation workers' union locals between 1942 and 1962. Of 1,258 men alive in January 1963, 1,117 were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Infra Red Spectroscopy of the Regulated Asbestos Amphiboles
…of the five regulated amphibole species: anthophyllite, amosite, and crocidolite, provided by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Organization, and tremolite and actinolite, from two well-known occurrences. The data from these reference samples have…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
The Tale of Asbestos in Sweden 1972-1986-The Pathway to a Near-Total Ban
…extensive charting of asbestos sources on a tripartite basis, involving government agencies, and employer and trade-union organizations. Restrictive asbestos management practices were enforced from July 1982. The year 1985 saw the Government Asbestos Commission review…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
The Third Wave of Asbestos Disease: Exposure to Asbestos in Place--Public Health Control. Conference. New York, New York, June 7-9, 1990
…author described a third phase of disease, from asbestos already in place. Of 17,800 insulation union members in the United States and Canada, 4,951 died in 1967-1986. On best evidence there were 1…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Mesothelioma in Relation to Asbestos in the United States
…Third, among 307 deaths from 1943 to August 1964 among members of New York Local 12 and Newark, New Jersey Local 32 of the insulation workers' union, 10 deaths were from mesothelioma (4 pleural, 6 peritoneal…
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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 · 1968
The Work Environment Of Insulating Workers
…of lung disease and cancers in these workers was still under way. It covered the roughly 500-member San Francisco local (No. 16) of the insulators' union. Of these members, 401 were active in March 1967…
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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 · 2024
Occupational exposure to chrysotile in an asbestos cement factory in Kyrgyzstan
…ml) for loading, 0.91 ff/ml for mixing and 4.7 ff/ml for sheet cutting. The authors reported constant non-compliance with the European Union limit, formerly 0.1 ff/ml, being lowered to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Cytologic Changes Associated With Asbestos Exposure
…some degree of bronchial epithelial atypia short of cancer, mostly slight. Among one hundred two asbestos workers union members working with known minimal exposure, eight had ferruginous bodies. Ferruginous bodies were not related to the bronchial…
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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 · 2026
Commentary on Notification and Recordkeeping of Occupational Mesothelioma in India
…cancer was notified in one state, in a country of 28 states and 8 union territories (mesothelioma being listed under occupational cancer and not a separate entry under the factories law). This is in sharp contrast…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Occupational Health In The Insulating Trade
…The program covered about 2,200 insulating workers in 11 local unions across 13 western states. In 1966, a contractors' association and the union's western conference set up a fund paid for by a 2…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Examining the Environmental Ramifications of Asbestos Fiber Movement Through the Water-Soil Continuum: A Review
…has been challenged by reports of asbestos in deep underground aquifers. They also noted that European Union rules set no limit for asbestos in drinking water, that standardized methods for measuring asbestos in water and soil…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Asbestos in Poland: occupational health problems
…supervises. The authors reported that Poland imported about 2 million tonnes of asbestos after 1945, mostly chrysotile from the former Soviet Union. Crocidolite and small amounts of amosite were also used until the mid 1980s. From…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1966
Occupational hazards of pipe insulators
…glass, asbestos-containing, plastic, adhesive and other insulating materials. The authors also analyzed adhesive solvents by gas chromatography and followed the 47 men listed as union members on Jan 1, 1939. By Jan 1, 1964, 33…