6 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 20, 1964
Irving J. Selikoff to Carl W. Sickles Listing Head Table Guests at the Conference on the Biological Effects of Asbestos Dinner (1964)
Letter from Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of Mount Sinai Hospital to the president of the asbestos workers' union, for publication in The Asbestos Worker, listing those seated at the head table at the October 20, 1964…
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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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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 8, 1968
Irving J. Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg, Asbestos Exposure, Smoking, and Neoplasia (1968)
…E. Cuyler Hammond of the American Cancer Society, on 370 members of the insulators' union in New York and Newark followed from 1963 to April 1967. Of 283 men with a history of regular cigarette smoking…
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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…
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Government report · 1968
Occupational Safety and Health: Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, on H.R. 14816 (1968)
…testimony and prepared statement of Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine on six years of research among asbestos insulation workers: excess deaths among 632 union members, lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis…