7 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Irregular opacities in the lung, occupational asthma, and airways dysfunction in aluminum workers
This exploratory case-match study compared 670 aluminum workers from a union at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with 659 regional pipefitters who were not exposed to aluminum. Both groups had worked with asbestos. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos disease in construction, refinery, and shipyard workers
…workers, and how shipyard work and cigarette smoking affected it. Workers were recruited through local unions if their first asbestos exposure was at least 15 years earlier and had lasted 5 years. From 1986 to 1989…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Airway obstruction in asbestos-exposed shipyard workers: with and without irregular opacities
This cross-sectional study measured breathing function by spirometry in 296 male Caucasian boilermakers from a Jacksonville, Florida union local. All had been exposed to asbestos in shipyards, mostly in ship repair, at least 15 years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Pulmonary functional impairment from years of arc welding
…welders who had worked at construction sites and power plants but never in shipyards. They were volunteers from two midwestern locals of the boilermakers' union. Men with signs of asbestosis on chest X-rays were excluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Difficulties of attribution of effect in workers exposed to fiberglass and asbestos
This study examined 175 workers from a rotary spun fiberglass plant in production since 1947. They were invited through their unions. The workers had chest X-rays, lung function tests, questionnaires and chest examinations. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Abnormal pulmonary function associated with diaphragmatic pleural plaques due to exposure to asbestos
…most of them members of boilermakers', pipefitters', metal, or chemical unions. Their mean age was just over 60, with over 30 years of asbestos exposure. Results for 21 non-smokers and 43 current smokers were compared…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Asbestosis, pulmonary symptoms and functional impairment in shipyard workers
A group of 339 male shipyard workers responded to an invitation via shipyards, unions, and news media to be studied for the presence of asbestosis and its functional effects. Of these, 288 were white or black…