13 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Asbestos and cancer; the report and recommendations of a working group convened under the auspices of the Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union Against Cancer
This was not a new study but the abridged report and recommendations of an international Working Group convened under the International Union Against Cancer. Some 40 delegates from several countries reviewed information from an October 1964…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Report and recommendations of the working group on asbestos and cancer; convened under the auspices of the Geographical Pathology Section of the International Union against Cancer
This is not a research study. It is the report of a Working Group convened by the Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union against Cancer, which met in New York in October 1964 with forty…
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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 · 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 · 1968
Industrial Hygiene For Insulation Workers
This 1968 paper reported preliminary findings from an industrial hygiene survey of insulation workers in San Francisco Local 16 of the insulators' union. The local had about 500 men in Northern California and Northern Nevada. The…
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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 · 1967
Mortality experience in a group of asbestos workers
This study looked at deaths among 152 asbestos insulators in New York state who had at least 15 years of exposure to asbestos dust. The authors used union records, death certificates, physicians' and hospital records, and…
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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 · 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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Biological Effects Of Asbestos
…by Selikoff, Churg and Hammond, studied the 1,522 men in the New York and New Jersey insulation workers' union locals between 1942 and 1962. Of 1,258 men alive in January 1963, 1,117 were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1966
Occupational hazards of pipe insulators
…glass, asbestos-containing, plastic, adhesive and other insulating materials. The authors also analyzed adhesive solvents by gas chromatography and followed the 47 men listed as union members on Jan 1, 1939. By Jan 1, 1964, 33…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
An interdisciplinary approach to measurement
…associated with asbestos exposure. Dr V Timbrell discussed how dust deposition in the lung influenced the choice of particle sizes for the International Union Against Cancer's standard reference samples of asbestos. Dr J C Wagner…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Trends in the health of the asbestos worker
…the Johns-Manville Corporation, commented on the health of asbestos workers and on how asbestos-related disease had been reported. He argued that the term "asbestos worker" was used too loosely. Insulation union members might have…