258 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 13
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Short fiber tremolite free chrysotile mesothelioma cohort revealed
In 1995, Dell and Teta published a cohort mortality study of asbestos molding compound workers at a Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) plastics manufacturing plant in Bound Brook, New Jersey. They reported that the factory workers were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Re: Controlled use of asbestos
…authors argued that controlled use was the latest in a series of corporate misrepresentations of asbestos risk. They examined Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) claims that Calidria, a chrysotile mined from the Coalinga deposit in California…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
The Production of Corporate Research to Manufacture Doubt About the Health Hazards of Products: An Overview of the Exponent Bakelite® Simulation Study
…that are no longer manufactured or sold. As an example, this paper reviews one such study-a litigation-generated study of Union Carbide Corporation's asbestos-containing product, Bakelite®. This analysis is based on previously secret…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
A mortality study of a research, engineering, and metal fabrication facility in western New York State
This cohort mortality study covered 8,146 men who worked at least one month between 1946 and 1981 at Union Carbide's Linde Division facility in Tonawanda, New York. It excluded the plant's Manhattan Project…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Chrysotile biopersistence: the misuse of biased studies
…mesothelioma, and non-malignant lung and pleural disorders, manufacturers and some chrysotile miners' unions contend that chrysotile either does not cause disease or that there is insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion. At the same time…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Dust diseases and the legacy of corporate manipulation of science and law
…only processes it believed could reach that level; it judged five plants economically infeasible at that limit. A Union Carbide memo expected a 31.5% sales loss at 0.2 f/cc. In 1976, they wrote…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Asbestos panelists accuse government of misusing science
…world's fifth-largest exporter of chrysotile asbestos. A sidebar reported that, according to court transcripts, panel member David Bernstein had previously been retained by Union Carbide. The article presented no study data of its own.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Teachers Union Organizes Members to Enforce AHERA Law--A Work in Progress
…the Massachusetts Teachers Association developed an organizing strategy and a curriculum focusing on the requirements of the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act and on building a membership-run health and safety committee infrastructure in local unions…
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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 · 2004
Cancer incidence among members of the Norwegian trade union of insulation workers
Insulation work has been described as an occupation with high exposure to asbestos. A cohort of members of the Norwegian Trade Union of Insulation Workers (n = 1116), hired between 1930 and 1975, was established. During…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
"Serving two masters"--an interview with school teacher and union organizer Debra Askwith
Debra Askwith is a teacher, union member, and environmental health and safety activist in the public schools of Springfield, Massachusetts. In the following interview, she talks about her experiences organizing around the right to public information…
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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 · 1965
Asbestos and cancer; the report and recommendations of a working group convened under the auspices of the Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union Against Cancer
This was not a new study but the abridged report and recommendations of an international Working Group convened under the International Union Against Cancer. Some 40 delegates from several countries reviewed information from an October 1964…
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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 · 1965
Report and recommendations of the working group on asbestos and cancer; convened under the auspices of the Geographical Pathology Section of the International Union against Cancer
…is the report and recommendations of an international working group on asbestos and cancer, convened under the Geographical Pathology Section of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). Delegates from several countries split into three working parties…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Yield of Low-Dose Computerized Tomography Screening for Lung Cancer in High-Risk Workers: The Case of 7189 US Nuclear Weapons Workers
To determine the lung cancer screening yield and stages in a union-sponsored low-dose computerized tomography scan program for nuclear weapons workers with diverse ages, smoking histories, and occupations. We implemented a low-dose computerized…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Proportionate mortality among unionized roofers and waterproofers
The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers (UURWAW) is one of the 15 building and construction trades departments in the AFL-CIO. The U.S. roofing industry, including both roofing and waterproofing applications, both…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Radiological evidence of asbestos disease among ship repair workers
The authors examined union members at a shipyard limited to ship repair. All were 20 or more years from the start of their shipyard employment. Of those invited, 139 active and 147 retired workers were examined…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina
…study responds to concerns of a group of former aluminum workers. The results, while imprecise, suggest excess respiratory and bladder cancers among pot room workers in a contemporary cohort of union employees at a US smelter.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Non-Malignant Respiratory Illnesses in Association with Occupational Exposure to Asbestos and Other Insulating Materials: Findings from the Alberta Insulator Cohort
This cross-sectional study looked at 990 union insulators in Edmonton, Alberta, screened in a voluntary workplace health program from 2011 to 2017. Most (88%) were men, with an average age of 45. Workers answered questionnaires…