263 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 6 of 14
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Assessing truck driver exposure at the World Trade Center disaster site: personal and area monitoring for particulate matter and volatile organic compounds during October 2001 and April 2002
…as well as area monitoring that was conducted directly on site during October 2001 and April 2002. In cooperation with a local labor union, 54 drivers (October) and 15 drivers (April) were recruited on site to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
The international chrysotile asbestos scandal
…the Alliance Against Asbestos, a coalition of environmental, health care, labor union and asbestos-victim groups, and it reports no new medical data. It opposed a revision of a 1986 asbestos guidance document, Environmental Health Criteria…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Determinants of restrictive lung function in asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis
…lung volumes. The authors studied 24 sheet metal workers, chosen from 1,211 screened in a union program, all never or former smokers with no lung scarring on chest X-ray: seven with normal pleura, nine…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestotic radiological abnormalities among United States merchant marine seamen
…United States merchant marine seamen, taken in 1985-7. Members on union lists of about 10,000 active and retired seamen were invited for an x-ray, and roughly half came. One experienced B reader read…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
A labor-management occupational health service in a construction industry
…13 western US states, run jointly by their union and contractors. It was a program description rather than a new study. The region had about 2,200 insulating workers in 11 local unions. Citing their own…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos-related diseases and asbestos types used in the former GDR
…insulation and fire prevention material, etc. in the large-scale chemical industry. Chrysotile was predominantly imported from the former Soviet Union, partly from Canada. Very small amounts of amphiboles came from Mozambique, but they were not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Retrospective analysis of large-scale research screening of construction workers for the early diagnosis of mesothelioma
…analysis of a 5-year blood-test screening program begun in 2007. It enrolled members of a Tokyo construction workers' union and health insurance association, chosen because their jobs put them at risk of asbestos exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Parenchymal and pleural fibrosis in construction workers
…construction workers near Tampere, Finland. Of 993 eligible union members (members since at least 1967), 437 (44%) answered a questionnaire on asbestos and quartz dust exposure and had a chest X-ray. Eighty-one percent reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Free radical activity of natural and heat treated amphibole asbestos
This was a laboratory study of two amphibole asbestos minerals, amosite and crocidolite, using standard reference samples from the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC). No people, animals or cells were studied. The authors calcined (heated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Hazards of lung biopsy in asbestos workers
…asbestos insulation workers had lung biopsies and what happened afterwards. It drew on a union cohort of 17 800 insulation workers in the United States and Canada. Of 2907 living members who had reached 30 years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Classics in Oncology: Asbestos exposure and neoplasia
…article reprints a 1964 JAMA paper. The authors studied 632 insulation workers in the New York and Newark, New Jersey, asbestos workers' union locals at the end of 1942. From January 1, 1943, through December 31…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung health among plumbers and pipefitters in Edmonton, Alberta
…lung function, and radiographic changes among 99 actively employed plumbers and pipefitters with > or = 20 years of union membership were compared with 100 telephone workers. A respiratory symptom questionnaire was administered, including smoking and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Participatory mapping of occupational hazards and disease among asbestos-exposed workers from a foundry and insulation complex in Canada
…complex in Sarnia, Ontario. The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers union did it to support compensation claims. Former workers drew 'hazard maps' of their workplaces from memory. Foundry workers described…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
The phase-out of asbestos in the Australian manufacturing environment
…asbestos workers. The threat of future asbestos exposures remains for maintenance workers. An example is given of the need for continued vigilance of workers and their unions before the manufacturing environment can be relatively asbestos-free.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Surface charge and asbestos toxicity
…to their ability to burst red blood cells (haemolytic activity). They tested two reference samples of the International Union against Cancer: chrysotile A and the amphibole crocidolite. The fibres were soaked (leached) in Tyrode's solution…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestosis: interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and pleural fibrosis in a cohort of asbestos insulation workers: influence of cigarette smoking
…first medical examination of 1,117 New York-New Jersey asbestos insulation workers, who were 89.4% of the 1,249 eligible union members. The films were reread using the 1971 International Labour Office classification without…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Human cancer from environmental pollutants: the epidemiological evidence
…to cancer. Using meta-analyses, pooled analyses and selected studies, it estimated attributable cancer cases in the European Union for 2002. For residential asbestos exposure, mainly from outdoor pollution near asbestos mining or manufacturing, a cited…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Protest and survive, the U.K. Construction Safety Campaign: a case study of workers' and victims' family action and legal and regulatory inaction on construction health and safety
The U.K. Construction Safety Campaign, based on grass-roots rank-and-file trade union activity, has both a domestic agenda and a wider sphere with regard to international developments. Using organized protests and media exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: inaccuracies in occupational categories
…two asbestos workers' cohorts. One (insulation workers) had current or recent employment and a strong, continuing union support system which gave them much information about the effects of asbestos exposure. The second cohort, asbestos factory workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Cytotoxic action of mineral dusts on CHV 79 cells in vitro: factors affecting toxicity
…separate laboratories in the UK. The dusts which have been studied include samples of asbestos from the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer reference series and an internationally available sample of quartz (DQ12). Besides comparing results obtained…