263 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 4 of 14
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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 · 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 · 1973
Worker-sponsored survey for asbestosis: detection of occupational lung disease without a control group
…a cross-sectional survey, requested by a local union, of 57 white male workers at a small northeastern Massachusetts plant making asbestos wall board. The group was 52 of 56 active union members, three retirees and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Cancer Attributable to Asbestos Exposure in Shipbreaking Workers: A Matched-Cohort Study
This retrospective matched-cohort study followed 4,427 former shipbreaking workers in Taiwan, members of the 1985 Kaohsiung Shipbreaking Workers Union, and 22,135 general-population controls matched by age, sex and living area. All were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Traffic-related distribution of antimony in roadside soils
…the need for more detailed research on various traffic-related emissions and related distribution patterns. Since the banning of asbestos in the European Union, its substitution with antimony (Sb) in brake linings has led to increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Exposure to insulating materials and risk of coronary artery diseases: a cross-sectional study
…CAD among insulators. In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 643 adults (≥18 years), full-time insulators from the Local 110 Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Union in Edmonton, Alberta. We obtained demographic information…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
How Canada's Asbestos Industry Was Defeated in Quebec
…all the political parties in the Canadian House of Commons and the Quebec National Assembly, as well as from business and union organizations. Two lobby organizations (Chrysotile Institute and International Chrysotile Association) had significant global impact…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Historical state of knowledge of the health risks of asbestos posed to seamen on merchant ships
…authors reviewed studies, air-sampling reports, government, union and industry documents, and 1980 Congressional hearings. They found maritime health and safety organizations first addressed it in the mid- to late 1970s and early 1980s. The Coast…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Australia's Ongoing Legacy of Asbestos: Significant Challenges Remain Even after the Complete Banning of Asbestos Almost Fifteen Years Ago
…The sustained efforts of trade unions and non-governmental organisations were essential in forcing the Australian government to finally implement the 2003 asbestos ban. Trade unions and non-government organisations continue to play a key role…
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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 · 1979
Based on available data, can we project an acceptable standard for industrial use of asbestos? Perhaps
This was not a research study but a commentary by the author, of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, on whether an acceptable standard for industrial asbestos exposure could be set. It reported no new data…
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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 · 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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Mortality patterns among electrical workers employed in the U.S. construction industry, 1982-1987
…mainly construction electricians, who died in the United States in 1982 to 1987. It used union death benefit records and death certificates. Records of members dropped for unpaid dues were not kept, so the authors used…
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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 · 1993
Lung function in insulation workers
…materials (rock and glass wool), the members of the Copenhagen Union of Insulation Workers were invited to participate in a study based on a health examination that included lung function tests. Three hundred and forty men…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Industrial hygiene review of three manufacturing facilities in Senegal: findings and key questions
…cement formulating facility, chosen by the Senegalese Ministry of Labor. The review used structured interviews with management and union representatives and walkthrough inspections with limited monitoring of noise, total dust and volatile organic compounds. The article…
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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 · 1990
Asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis and impaired lung function
…test results in asbestos-exposed sheet metal workers. In 1986 the sheet metal workers' union offered medical examinations to members with at least 25 years in the trade. The authors analysed 1,211 male workers from…