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NIOSH Technical Report: Occupational Exposure to Talc Containing Asbestos, Morbidity, Mortality, and Environmental Studies of Miners and Millers (1980)

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A February 1980 NIOSH technical report (DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 80-115) on talc miners and millers at a talc mine and mill in the Gouverneur district of upper New York. It presents an industrial hygiene study, a cross-sectional morbidity study of 121 current workers, and a retrospective mortality study of 398 workers, and reviews earlier literature on talc and asbestiform minerals.

Author
John M. Dement (Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH (Environmental Study)); Ralph D. Zumwalde (Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH (Environmental Study)); John F. Gamble (Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH (Cross Sectional Morbidity Study)); William Fellner (Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH (Cross Sectional Morbidity Study)); Michael J. DeMeo (Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH (Cross Sectional Morbidity Study)); David P. Brown (Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH (Retrospective Cohort Study of Mortality)); Joseph K. Wagoner (Occupational Safety and Health Administration, DOL (Retrospective Cohort Study of Mortality))
Published by
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Center for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Series
Union Carbide documents, UC-3541
Date
February 1980
Number
Bates UCC 007300 to UCC 007415
Library no.
ACL Doc 18283 · asbestosclaims.law/library/18283
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A document from asbestos litigation, published for research and historical study.

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From John M. Dement (Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH (Environmental Study)); Ralph D. Zumwalde (Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH (Environmental Study)); John F. Gamble (Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH (Cross Sectional Morbidity Study)); William Fellner (Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH (Cross Sectional Morbidity Study)); Michael J. DeMeo (Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH (Cross Sectional Morbidity Study)); David P. Brown (Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH (Retrospective Cohort Study of Mortality)); Joseph K. Wagoner (Occupational Safety and Health Administration, DOL (Retrospective Cohort Study of Mortality)).

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This is document UC-3541 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 116 pages. Production numbers UCC 007300 to UCC 007415.

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John M. Dement (Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH (Environmental Study)), Ralph D. Zumwalde (Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH (Environmental Study)), John F. Gamble (Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH (Cross Sectional Morbidity Study)), William Fellner (Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH (Cross Sectional Morbidity Study)), Michael J. DeMeo (Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH (Cross Sectional Morbidity Study)), David P. Brown (Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH (Retrospective Cohort Study of Mortality)), Joseph K. Wagoner (Occupational Safety and Health Administration, DOL (Retrospective Cohort Study of Mortality)). “NIOSH Technical Report: Occupational Exposure to Talc Containing Asbestos, Morbidity, Mortality, and Environmental Studies of Miners and Millers.” February 1980. Union Carbide documents, UC-3541, Bates UCC 007300 to UCC 007415. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Center for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 18283. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/18283.

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