532 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 25 of 27
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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 · 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
This is not a research study. It is the report of a Working Group convened by the Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union against Cancer, which met in New York in October 1964 with forty…
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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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Magazine · The Asbestos Worker · 1961
The Asbestos Worker, 1961
…People Against Useless Drugs (AFL-CIO General Board meeting) Nov. 1961 November 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 17) Local Unions & Correspondence Correspondence (Locals at Providence, Deer Park, Texas, and others; banquet honoring Local 22 Houston pensioners) Nov…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Asbestos exposure and neoplasia
This study followed 632 men who were members of two asbestos insulation workers' union locals, in New York and in Newark, New Jersey, as of 1942. It traced their deaths from January 1, 1943, through December…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1968
Albert E. Hutchinson, From the General President, The Asbestos Worker (August 1968)
…See also Asbestos Workers Union. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: In the 8/68 edition of Asbestos Worker magazine there appears…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Industrial Hygiene For Insulation Workers
This 1968 paper reported preliminary findings from an industrial hygiene survey of insulation workers in San Francisco Local 16 of the insulators' union. The local had about 500 men in Northern California and Northern Nevada. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The occurrence of asbestosis among insulation workers in the United States
The authors surveyed the 1,522 men who belonged to the New York (Local 12) and New Jersey (Local 32) insulation workers' union locals at any time from 1942 to 1962. Of the 1,258 still…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 25, 1964
J. B. Jobe to D. L. Hinmon on Labeling Asbestos Products to Lessen Claims (1964)
…25/64 states: "In view of the importance being given to the subject by the Asbestos Workers Union it is our belief that we should take advantage of any items which could lessen our exposure to…
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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 · 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 · 1965
The occurrence of pleural calcification among asbestos insulation workers
…then presented an X-ray survey of asbestos insulation workers. The author studied 1,258 union insulation workers in the New York-New Jersey area and examined 1,117 of them in 1963-1964, using standard…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 8, 1968
Irving J. Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg, Asbestos Exposure, Smoking, and Neoplasia (1968)
…E. Cuyler Hammond of the American Cancer Society, on 370 members of the insulators' union in New York and Newark followed from 1963 to April 1967. Of 283 men with a history of regular cigarette smoking…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Biological Effects Of Asbestos
…by Selikoff, Churg and Hammond, studied the 1,522 men in the New York and New Jersey insulation workers' union locals between 1942 and 1962. Of 1,258 men alive in January 1963, 1,117 were…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 11, 1969
H. M. Jackson to All Plant, Mill and Mine Managers on Explaining the Membrane Filter Technique to Unions (1969)
…that J-M would measure asbestos dust by counting fibers on a membrane filter in the worker's breathing zone. Jackson's addition was that unions and employees should be told about the new method too.
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Company document · WARD Documents · 1960
Handleability Panel Comments on Thermobestos and Competing Calcium Silicate Insulations (c. 1960)
…Ruberoid's Calsilite, Baldwin-Ehret-Hill's Thermasil, Owens-Corning Fiberglas's Kaylo and Union Asbestos and Rubber Company's Unibestos. Dustiness is noted for nearly every sample, from "No dust" and "Very little dust" for…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 24, 1969
Release and Indemnity Agreement Settling Tomplait v. Combustion Engineering (1969)
…000 each, $75,000 in all: Combustion Engineering with R & I Refractory & Insulation, Johns-Manville Products Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Eagle-Picher Industries, and Pittsburgh Corning with Unarco and Union Asbestos and Rubber. Of that, $7…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 21, 1969
T. J. Weeks, Throwaway Mask for Fibrous Dusts, J-M Research Center Progress Report No. 1 (1969)
…to job, so "these men generally wear no respirator and have little or no protection"; after talks with the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the insulators' union, the U.S. Bureau of Mines and Mount Sinai, J…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 10, 1960
C. L. Sheckler and Others on a Mandatory Respirator Program at the Manville Plant (1960)
…though there is a recognized health hazard and we may be generating additional O.D. [occupational disease] cases," because of "our vulnerable position from the Union and the State standpoint" and the added wage cost. W…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 19, 1968
Carl Thompson of Hill and Knowlton to Bert C. Goss on the Johns-Manville Project on the Selikoff Program (1968)
…brake linings, mesothelioma, ambient air, etc." J-M had just agreed to fund the research (see the union president's August 1968 letter), and this memo shows it also arranging, through its public relations firm, how…