13 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Radiological evidence of asbestos disease among ship repair workers
The authors examined union members at a shipyard limited to ship repair. All were 20 or more years from the start of their shipyard employment. Of those invited, 139 active and 147 retired workers were examined…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Clinical findings among asbestos workers in U.S.: influence of cigarette smoking
All members of a large union were invited to participate in a study of potentially adverse effects of asbestos exposure. Clinical findings among 1,117 workers (90% of those eligible for examination) are presented in this…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Pulmonary fibrosis in asbestos insulation workers with lung cancer: a radiological and histopathological evaluation
This study examined members of an insulation workers' union who died of lung cancer between January 1967 and September 1983. It was part of a continuing cohort mortality study of 17,800 union members. Of 450…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Symptomatic benign pleural effusions among asbestos insulation workers: residual radiographic abnormalities
This cross-sectional survey examined 2815 asbestos insulation workers from a union cohort in the United States and Canada, each with 30 or more years since first exposure, in 1981 to 1983. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Spirometric impairments in long-term insulators. Relationships to duration of exposure, smoking, and radiographic abnormalities
This study examined breathing tests (spirometry) and chest X-rays in 2,611 men from the asbestos insulators' union. They were examined in 19 US and Canadian cities in 1981 to 1983; 87 percent were at…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 1986
Asbestosis: interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and pleural fibrosis in a cohort of asbestos insulation workers: influence of cigarette smoking
…first medical examination of 1,117 New York-New Jersey asbestos insulation workers, who were 89.4% of the 1,249 eligible union members. The films were reread using the 1971 International Labour Office classification without…
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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 · 1987
Exposure of sheet-metal workers to asbestos during the construction and renovation of commercial buildings in New York City. A case study in social medicine
…buildings. In 1982 the Occupational Health Program of Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine initiated a multidimensional asbestos evaluation and intervention program for the sheet-metal industry and union in New York…