14 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 · 1968
Asbestos exposure, smoking, and neoplasia
The authors followed 370 men from two asbestos insulation workers' union locals in New York and Newark, New Jersey, who were alive on January 1, 1963, through April 30, 1967. All had first been exposed to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos-associated deaths among insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1967-1987
…insulation workers, the authors reported 20 years of mortality follow-up of insulators. The cohort comprised 17,800 men enrolled in the insulators' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967. They were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Asbestos exposure and neoplasia
This study followed 632 men who were members of two asbestos insulation workers' union locals, in New York and in Newark, New Jersey, as of 1942. It traced their deaths from January 1, 1943, through December…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The occurrence of asbestosis among insulation workers in the United States
The authors surveyed the 1,522 men who belonged to the New York (Local 12) and New Jersey (Local 32) insulation workers' union locals at any time from 1942 to 1962. Of the 1,258 still…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Use of death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: variations in discordance of different asbestos-associated diseases on best evidence ascertainment
This was a prospective study of all 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. They were followed from January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986…
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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 · 1991
Evaluation of selection bias in a cross-sectional survey
…insulation workers who took part in a medical survey differed from those who did not. In 1967 the authors enrolled 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Neoplasia among insulation workers in the United States with special reference to intra-abdominal neoplasia
…an extension of the authors' earlier report, followed members of New York Local 12 and Newark Local 32 of the insulation workers' union. The authors described the men as having had very light and intermittent exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Hazards of lung biopsy in asbestos workers
…asbestos insulation workers had lung biopsies and what happened afterwards. It drew on a union cohort of 17 800 insulation workers in the United States and Canada. Of 2907 living members who had reached 30 years…
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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 · 1992
Death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: inaccuracies in occupational categories
…two asbestos workers' cohorts. One (insulation workers) had current or recent employment and a strong, continuing union support system which gave them much information about the effects of asbestos exposure. The second cohort, asbestos factory workers…
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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 · 1965
The occurrence of pleural calcification among asbestos insulation workers
…then presented an X-ray survey of asbestos insulation workers. The author studied 1,258 union insulation workers in the New York-New Jersey area and examined 1,117 of them in 1963-1964, using standard…