49 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 3
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
A mortality study of a research, engineering, and metal fabrication facility in western New York State
This cohort mortality study covered 8,146 men who worked at least one month between 1946 and 1981 at Union Carbide's Linde Division facility in Tonawanda, New York. It excluded the plant's Manhattan Project…
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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 · 1986
Clinical findings among asbestos workers in U.S.: influence of cigarette smoking
All members of a large union were invited to participate in a study of potentially adverse effects of asbestos exposure. Clinical findings among 1,117 workers (90% of those eligible for examination) are presented in this…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Respiratory morbidity in workers exposed to asbestos in the primary manufacture of building materials
…for asbestos-related pulmonary disease. Results are presented on 182 union members whose names appeared on a 1966 seniority list in one of six departments believed to have had substantial asbestos exposure. The study population demonstrated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Feasibility of identifying high-risk occupations through tumor registries
…group comprised 6,424 union members residing in the San Francisco/Oakland Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) who represent six occupations: asbestos workers, bakers, painters, plasterers, plumbers and roofers. Computer linkage of union rosters to the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestosis among electricians
This cross-sectional study examined 38 of 39 eligible union electricians who had worked on renovating a specific building in May 1985, when asbestos exposure was documented. Exact exposure values were unknown, so the authors used…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Pulmonary fibrosis in asbestos insulation workers with lung cancer: a radiological and histopathological evaluation
This study examined members of an insulation workers' union who died of lung cancer between January 1967 and September 1983. It was part of a continuing cohort mortality study of 17,800 union members. Of 450…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Reactions of asbestos-exposed workers to notification and screening
This study asked asbestos-exposed paperworkers how they reacted to a union letter warning them of high risk for asbestos-related illness and offering free medical screening. They had worked at an acoustical tile and wallboard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Symptomatic benign pleural effusions among asbestos insulation workers: residual radiographic abnormalities
This cross-sectional survey examined 2815 asbestos insulation workers from a union cohort in the United States and Canada, each with 30 or more years since first exposure, in 1981 to 1983. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Asbestos-related disease in plumbers and pipefitters employed in building construction
This cross-sectional prevalence study examined plumbers and pipefitters in building construction from one union local. In 1982 and 1983, 160 active and retired members volunteered; results covered 153 white male participants. Methods included questionnaires, breathing…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
The relation among pulmonary function, chest roentgenographic abnormalities, and smoking status in an asbestos-exposed cohort
This cross-sectional study examined 681 male plumbers and pipefitters in a 1982-1984 union surveillance program in Seattle and Tacoma. Exposure was measured as years in the trade; the article does not identify the cohort…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Mortality of brain tumors among asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada
This prospective cohort study followed 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, recording deaths through December 31, 1979. The men mainly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Patterns of mortality among plumbers and pipefitters
This proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) study compared causes of death among 7,121 white male members and retirees of California plumbers' and pipefitters' union locals who died in the U.S. in 1960-79 with the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Mesothelioma among machinists in railroad and other industries
…29 cancer deaths, there were nine mesotheliomas and one endothelioma of the pleura. Additional retrospective surveys of deaths among members of the railroad lodges of the international union, together with the cohort study, identified a total…
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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 · 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 · 1989
Analysis of mortality patterns and workers' compensation awards among asbestos insulation workers in Ontario
This study examined deaths and workers' compensation awards among 1,064 members of Local 95, the Ontario local of the asbestos insulation workers' union, followed to the end of 1985. Poor identifying information meant some deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Interventions in high-risk occupational cohorts: a cross-sectional demonstration project
…Health from 1980 to 1984. One project involved about 1,200 workers, mostly Flint Glass Workers' Union members, potentially exposed to asbestos from 1964 to 1972 at a glass and insulation plant in Port Allegany, Pennsylvania…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Worker produced health education material for the construction trades
…of photonovel respondents, versus 40% of NCI booklet respondents, said they thought they would become more active in union health and safety activities. Photonovel readers were much less likely to confuse asbestosis and cancer. NCI booklet…
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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…