10 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1972
E. C. Hammond and I. J. Selikoff, 'Relation of Cigarette Smoking to Risk of Death of Asbestos-Associated Disease among Insulation Workers in the United States' (IARC Scientific Publication No. 8) (1972)
…two cohorts of asbestos insulation workers, 370 men in the New York-New Jersey locals followed 1963-1971 and 17,800 men in the US and Canadian union followed 1967-1971, and analyzing deaths by smoking…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 8, 1968
Selikoff, Hammond and Churg, 'Asbestos Exposure, Smoking, and Neoplasia' (JAMA, 1968)
Journal article reporting a follow-up study of 370 asbestos insulation workers from union locals in New York and Newark, observed from Jan 1, 1963 to April 30, 1967. It compares observed and expected deaths, including…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 8, 1968
Selikoff, Hammond and Churg, 'Asbestos Exposure, Smoking, and Neoplasia,' JAMA (1968)
Journal article reporting a study of 370 asbestos insulation workers followed from January 1963 to April 1967, with deaths compared against expected figures by cause and by smoking habits. The authors reported high rates of bronchogenic carcinoma…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1982
H. Seidman, I. J. Selikoff and E. C. Hammond, Mortality of Brain Tumors Among Asbestos Insulation Workers in the United States and Canada (1982)
Journal article reporting deaths from brain tumors among a cohort of 17,800 asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada followed from 1967 to 1979. It reports 24 brain tumor deaths by best evidence, compared with expected numbers,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1979
E. C. Hammond, I. J. Selikoff and H. Seidman, 'Asbestos Exposure, Cigarette Smoking and Death Rates,' Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1979)
Published journal article reporting a mortality study of 17,800 asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada followed from 1967 through 1976. It compares their death rates by cause and smoking history with a control group from an…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
I. J. Selikoff and E. C. Hammond, 'Asbestos and Smoking,' JAMA Editorial (1979)
A JAMA editorial by Selikoff and Hammond on the interaction of asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking. It reports follow-up data on 12,051 asbestos insulation workers, 1967-1976, with lung cancer and asbestosis death rates, and advises exposed…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 1980
Selikoff, Seidman and Hammond, 'Mortality Effects of Cigarette Smoking Among Amosite Asbestos Factory Workers', JNCI (1980)
Journal article reporting a prospective mortality study of 582 men who worked at a Paterson, New Jersey amosite asbestos factory in 1941-45, observed from the 20-year point through 1977. It reports 304 deaths, 60 from lung cancer, and a calculated…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1971
I. J. Selikoff, E. C. Hammond and J. Churg, Neoplasia Risk Associated with Occupational Exposure to Airborne Inorganic Fibers (1971)
Reprint of a 1971 conference paper on cancer risk from airborne inorganic fibers. It reviews neoplasms associated with asbestos and other mineral fibers and tabulates deaths among 632 New York-New Jersey insulation workers, including 916 consecutive…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 3, 1979
Selikoff and Hammond, 'Asbestos and Smoking,' JAMA Editorial (1979)
A JAMA editorial by Selikoff and Hammond on the interaction of asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking in lung cancer and asbestosis mortality among asbestos insulation workers. It recommends that exposed workers not smoke and receive periodic…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1969
Selikoff, Pundsack and Hammond, "Fibrous Dust Respirator Protection: Designing for Workman Acceptance and Effectiveness" (1969)
…against chrysotile, but noted that amosite and crocidolite had not been tested. In two-day field trials with union members and an insulation contractor, men wearing a J-M prototype with an exhalation valve, the same…