289 results for “General Electric”, page 11 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
A study of the size distributions of airborne amosite fibres in the manufacture of asbestos insulation boards
…tasks such as bag opening, sawing and sanding, and in general areas. One filter of each pair was examined by optical phase contrast microscopy and the other by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Fibre length distributions did…
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Patent · November 10, 1970
Insulation composition which expands in use (US Patent 3,539,474, 1970)
John G. Sommer Jr received US Patent No. 3,539,474 on November 10, 1970, filed September 29, 1967. It was assigned to General Tire and Rubber Co.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos-associated neoplasms of B cell lineage
…combined incidence of these two cancers was 7.7 per cent. The authors said this appeared much greater than in the general South African population, but that the number of patients was too small for epidemiologic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos cancer: past and future hazards
…affect how far fibers penetrate the lung. The author concluded that the dose needed to raise lung cancer risk materially was likely well above what the general public had encountered. The author also noted that smoking…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Historical background to the asbestos problem
…with the Cape asbestos field, and Doll's 1955 finding that men employed 20 or more years at a large asbestos works had 10 times the general population's lung cancer risk. The authors concluded that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Greater public awareness of health hazards of asbestos exposure
…lining work. People over 50 became more aware, but manual laborers still lagged behind the general population. Understanding that asbestos illness may take more than 20 years to develop improved substantially but remained low. The item…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Asbestos related disease in Barrow-in-Furness
…carcinoma deaths, and 13 versus 2 mesothelioma deaths. Autoantibody levels in 160 men with plaques did not differ significantly from those in the general British population. The author concluded that shipyard workers with plaques, without fibrosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Environmental exposure to asbestos: A factor in the rising rate of cancer in the industrialized world?
…exposure could not easily be discounted. The author still saw no reason to change the Lyon conference conclusion of no evidence of a risk to the general public at present. The author urged physicians to take…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Epidemiological and quantitative relationships between mesothelioma and asbestos on Tyneside
…fibres remains statistically significant. The data suggest that, on Tyneside, exposure to asbestos sufficient to cause an appreciable risk of developing mesothelioma has usually occurred through occupational exposure rather than by general environmental pollution by asbestos.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Dose-response relationships for asbestos-related disease: implications for hygiene standards. Part II. Mortality
…first exposure and duration were shown, with gastrointestinal cancer and asbestosis set aside. The author concluded that occupational exposure must be rigorously monitored, but that risk to the general population is likely to be extremely low.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
UK Naval Dockyards asbestosis study: survey of the sample population aged 50-59 years
As part of a general morbidity study of all civilian employees in the four Royal Naval Dockyards, the clinical, radiological and physiological effects of exposure to asbestos in 1200 men aged 50-59 years were studied…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 23, 1970
M. W. Burleson to W. D. Gaches and Others on Routing Customer Health Inquiries to C. L. Sheckler (1970)
What it shows Burleson was general manager of the Industrial Insulations Division, and the memo came three weeks after his order to put caution labels on the division's asbestos products. It placed the company's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Asbestos spraying, an occupational and environmental hazard
This report describes the damage likely to be sustained by both workmen and the general population when asbestos is sprayed to buildings as an insulating and sound-proofing material.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Current opinions on the asbestos cancer problem
This article was a synopsis of a recent review of epidemiological studies and a general summary by the same author, drawing on opinions expressed at the 1969 Pneumoconiosis Conference in Johannesburg. The author described international studies…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 8, 1979
Calidria Asbestos Distributors, Foreign Representatives, Sales Estimates and Financial Trend Charts (1979)
…S., Canada, Puerto Rico) by general area and product line, plus UCC warehouse locations Calidria asbestos foreign representatives (8-8-79) with 1979 estimated sales Calidria asbestos sales estimates in tons by product grade, domestic and…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · April 23, 1975
J. H. Marsh to Dr. Philip Enterline Sending J. D. Christian's Address on Asbestos and Health (1975)
…the Cassiar Mine, told the man that the exposure in mesothelioma cases "has largely been Crocidolite," that there was no evidence anyone in the general public had become ill from asbestos in community air, and that…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 1, 1971
Johns-Manville Employee Relations Department Health Research Report, July 1971 (1971)
What it shows The report notes that the retiree study had found "certain types of causes of death which are higher than those found in the general population" (see Jackson's memo on the Enterline study)…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 19, 1975
B. L. Ingalls to Joe Volk (National Gypsum) Transmitting Airborne Silica Sampling Details from Minneapolis Joint Compound Sanding (1975)
…L. Ingalls to Joe Volk, September 19, 1975 General information and conditions during monitoring for airborne respirable silica: sites, products used, contractor, equipment (dated 9/15/75) Table of airborne silica (respirable dust) samples at the…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 1974
G. J. Weihs, Chrysotile Asbestos (Group 7, Shorts) Market Analysis, Union Carbide Marketing Services Department (1974)
…G. J. Weihs) Table of contents Summary, conclusions and recommendations The product, general market and tables of captive fiber sources, manufacturers, and domestic market by use Floor tile market, Calidria sales, competition and world-wide use…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
Immunological studies of patients with asbestosis. I. Studies of cell-mediated immunity
…immune system may play a rôle in cancer development, the general level of immunocompetence was studied in a group of twenty-six patients with radiographically defined asbestosis, who might be at risk of developing asbestos-related…