263 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 2 of 14
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Health hazards of asbestos exposure
This conference paper followed asbestos insulation union members in the United States and Canada. It analyzed 12,051 men who reached 20 or more years since entering the trade: 77,391 man-years and 1,946…
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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 · 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 · 2008
Proportionate mortality study of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry
…but not in 1987 or 1995. Despite the limitations of a PMR analysis, study results indicate mortality related to asbestos exposure is, and will continue to be, an area of concern for members of the union.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
A proportionate mortality study of bricklayers and allied craftworkers
Mortality among members of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (IUBAC) is examined. Bricklayers and allied craft workers may be exposed to cobalt, epoxy resins, pitch, lime, and to lung carcinogens such as asbestos…
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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 · 1977
Surface charge and hemolytic activity of asbestos
…represented by zeta potential, and hemolytic activity were measured for the five asbestos reference samples of the International Union against Cancer (UICC). Zeta potentials in distilled water at pH 7.4 for chrysotiles A and B…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 1979
Mortality experience of insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1943--1976
…New Jersey union locals on January 1, 1943, followed to December 31, 1976, plus 833 men who joined these locals in 1943-1962. The other comprised all 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in…
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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 · 1975
Effect of asbestos on lipid peroxidation in the red cells
In vitro exposure of red cells to vie International Union against Cancer (UICC) standard reference asbestos samples resulted in an increase of thiobarbituric acid substances. Chrysotiles developed the largest amounts of lipid peroxides, followed by anthophyllite…
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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 · 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 · 2015
Mortality among sheet metal workers participating in a respiratory screening program
This study followed 17,345 sheet metal workers who had been union members for 20 or more years and were screened by chest x-ray at 62 sites nationwide between 1986 and 2004. The authors traced…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Safety and health of heavy equipment operators at Ground Zero
This report came from the head of an International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) safety and health team that arrived at Ground Zero, the World Trade Center site, on September 17, 2001. The team collected about…
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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 · 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…