263 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 5 of 14
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
CT scan screening for lung cancer: risk factors for nodules and malignancy in a high-risk urban cohort
…between 2001 and 2010, and some were followed for up to 10 years. Some were referred by a utility workers' union. The authors considered 171 participants (14.5%) to have confirmed asbestos exposure, based on both…
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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 · 1998
Lung health among boilermakers in Edmonton, Alberta
…boilermakers with 20 or more years of union membership and 100 telephone workers. Posteroanterior chest radiographs were evaluated by two experienced chest physicians, with a third arbitrating disagreed films. Union members were further categorized as boilermakers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Asbestos disease in Australia: looking forward and looking back
…and practice in Australia and introduced related pieces in the same journal issue. They described the trade union campaign to "Make James Hardie Pay", which ended when James Hardie shareholders approved a compensation fund in February…
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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 · 1991
Evaluation of selection bias in a cross-sectional survey
…insulation workers who took part in a medical survey differed from those who did not. In 1967 the authors enrolled 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. Of these…
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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 · 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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Documenting the asbestos story in Sarnia
…clinic in Windsor, Ontario, expressed its concerns about the health of former workers at a foundry and insulation plant in Sarnia to the Canadian Auto Workers union early in 1998. The workers suffered cancer, respiratory and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Lung cancer and mesothelioma during prospective surveillance of 1249 asbestos insulation workers, 1963-1974
…for 1249 union asbestos insulation workers in the New York metropolitan area, followed from January 1, 1963 to December 31, 1974. They were 370 older men who were already union members by 1942 and 879 younger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Dangerous and cancer-causing properties of products and chemicals in the oil-refining and petrochemical industries. Part IX: Asbestos exposure and analysis of exposures
…chest X-ray abnormalities in refinery and petrochemical workers, and historical reports of asbestos hazards. In 1990 a questionnaire was mailed to Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers local unions representing many companies, including Mobil, Chevron, Shell…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Re: "Changing attitudes and opinions regarding asbestos and cancer 1934-1965"
…not an original research study. Its author, the administrator of an insulators' union health program, was responding to Dr. Philip Enterline's 1991 review of how scientists' opinions on asbestos and cancer changed between 1934 and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Histologic type of lung cancer and asbestos exposure
…asbestos exposure. The authors reviewed 855 lung cancer cases in total (747 men and 108 women), from three New Jersey hospitals and from a study of insulation workers union members, which supplied 67 cases. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Asbestos production increases despite WHO opposition
…asbestos production had not declined despite national bans and World Health Organization (WHO) opposition. It stated that more than 40 countries, including all European Union members, had banned chrysotile (white asbestos), the only form still mined…
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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 · 1988
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: proportional mortality update
…workers. They examined death certificates for 331 white male members of Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association whose deaths were reported to the union benefit fund between January 1983 and October 1986. Deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos-related radiographic abnormalities in elevator construction workers
…screening held in November 1988. The screening covered members of the Philadelphia Local of the International Union of Elevator Constructors who had belonged to the union for at least 20 years. Ninety-one men took part…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Radiographic abnormalities in asbestos insulators: effects of duration from onset of exposure and smoking. Relationships of dyspnea with parenchymal and pleural fibrosis
This cross-sectional study examined chest X-rays and shortness of breath in U.S. asbestos insulation workers from a union-based cohort. Examinations took place in 19 U.S. cities from November 1981 to November…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Man-made respirable-sized organic fibers: what do we know about their toxicological profiles?
…are identified and some fundamental tenets of fiber toxicology are discussed. In addition, the European Union, in their recent consideration for banning chrysotile asbestos fibers, evaluated some organic fiber substitutes and compared them to the hazards…