4 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: II. Radiologic signs of asbestosis among active workers
…metropolitan area sheet metal workers found that 29.3% of the workers with 20 years or more of union membership (a surrogate for years of exposure) had radiologic abnormalities characteristic of parenchymal and/or pleural asbestosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestos disease screening by non-specialists: results of an evaluation
…workers. These workers had been exposed to asbestos in commercial building construction and renovation. The authors reviewed records of 800 union members examined between May 1982 and May 1983, using OSHA rules as a minimal benchmark…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: proportional mortality update
…workers. They examined death certificates for 331 white male members of Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association whose deaths were reported to the union benefit fund between January 1983 and October 1986. Deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Exposure of sheet-metal workers to asbestos during the construction and renovation of commercial buildings in New York City. A case study in social medicine
…buildings. In 1982 the Occupational Health Program of Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine initiated a multidimensional asbestos evaluation and intervention program for the sheet-metal industry and union in New York…