69 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 4
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Compensation of Occupational Diseases, Particularly Asbestos-Related Diseases, Among European Union (EU) Countries
This paper examined occupational disease compensation in European Union countries, focusing on asbestos-related diseases. The authors surveyed compensation institutes by questionnaire and compared mesothelioma compensations with World Health Organization pleural tumor death data, which excluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Mineral phases and some reexamined characteristics of the International Union Against Cancer standard asbestos samples
Standard asbestos samples to be used for biomedical research were first prepared by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in 1966 in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Using modern techniques, X-ray diffractometry, analytical transmission…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Extended mortality follow-up among men and women in a U.S. furniture workers union
…and 1962 in union-organized U.S. shops and were found through United Furniture Workers of America insurance records. Most worked in furniture and related plants, but about 1% held nonmanufacturing jobs such as union staff…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
This study followed 17,800 asbestos insulation union members in the United States and Canada from 1967 to 1987. Among 5026 deaths, 457 were from malignant mesothelioma (186 pleural, 271 peritoneal). Only cases whose tissue slides…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Lung function and chest radiograph abnormalities among construction insulators
In 1988 the authors surveyed British Columbia heat and frost insulators' union members aged 50 or older. Of those invited, 59 of 73 active and 29 of 42 retired workers took part. Of the 88 insulators…
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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-associated deaths among insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1967-1987
…insulation workers, the authors reported 20 years of mortality follow-up of insulators. The cohort comprised 17,800 men enrolled in the insulators' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967. They were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Beyond notification: a case study from Cloquet, Minnesota
…the Union was able to follow-up the notification and subsequent screening by sending members and their families the results of the initial screenings and other information concerning the status of any legal actions taken on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Fissural thickening and exposure to asbestos: occurrence, determinants, and functional impact
This study examined 147 male construction insulators from Local 58 of the insulators' union in the Montreal area. All were 50 or younger and none was compensated for asbestosis. The authors tested whether thickened interlobar fissures…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Proportionate mortality among construction laborers
This report presents the results of proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) analyses and proportionate cancer mortality ratio (PCMR) analyses among the 11,685 members of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), who died between 1985…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos-related diseases in construction carpenters
…CI 0.3-7.1) defects. Although only 631 of a potential 7,649 active and retired union members participated in this first-time survey and were relatively young, these findings add new evidence to the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Assessing quality of life when planning and evaluating worker notification programs: two case examples
This short paper described two preliminary efforts, carried out with the United Paperworkers International Union, to take workers' quality of life into account when notifying them of health risks. The first case summarized an earlier project…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Lung cinescintigraphy in the dynamic assessment of ventilation and mucociliary clearance of asbestos cement workers
This Italian study compared 30 former asbestos cement workers, recruited through a union, with nine union members never exposed to respiratory irritant dust or fumes. The cement was 20% asbestos: 70%-80% chrysotile, 15%-20% crocidolite…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos screening and education programs for building and construction trades unions
…screening and education programs designed for the building and construction trades unions were a national multisite effort that focused on improving the health of eligible union members and retirees at high risk of developing asbestos-related…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Use of death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: variations in discordance of different asbestos-associated diseases on best evidence ascertainment
This was a prospective study of all 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. They were followed from January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986…
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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
Decline in death rates among asbestos insulation workers 1967-1986 associated with diminution of work exposure to asbestos
This prospective study followed the mortality of 17,800 men who belonged to the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986. They had used insulation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Spirometric impairments in long-term insulators. Relationships to duration of exposure, smoking, and radiographic abnormalities
This study examined breathing tests (spirometry) and chest X-rays in 2,611 men from the asbestos insulators' union. They were examined in 19 US and Canadian cities in 1981 to 1983; 87 percent were at…
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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 · 1990
The relationship between respiratory impairment and asbestos-related pleural abnormality in an active work force
This cross-sectional study examined 110 construction insulators aged 35 and older who were still at work, drawn from a Quebec insulators' union local. The authors asked whether asbestos-related pleural abnormality, especially isolated pleural plaques…