4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Anthophyllite asbestos: state of the science review
…a standardized incidence ratio of 67 (95% CI 18 to 172) for mesothelioma in heavily exposed men who had worked at least 3 months, compared with the eastern Finland general population. In one reviewed rat study…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Evaluation of take-home exposure and risk associated with the handling of clothing contaminated with chrysotile asbestos
…weekly). These averages assumed zero asbestos outside the 30 to 45 minutes of each activity. PCM, a general fiber count, read 2 to 50 times higher than TEM, which the authors attributed largely to clothing fibers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
History and evolution of warning labels for automotive friction products
…manual and on 1973 Bendix brake boxes. Later Ford, General Motors and Buick materials warned against compressed air and dry cleaning, and a 1993 Ford bulletin recommended non-asbestos parts. They reported that OSHA rules exempted…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Malignant pleural mesothelioma in US automotive mechanics: reported vs expected number of cases from 1975 to 2007
…not compare the reported number of cases to an "expected" value, even though pleural mesothelioma occurs in the general population in the absence of asbestos exposure. We compare the number of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) cases…