289 results for “General Electric”, page 4 of 15
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1971
Murphy, Levine, Al Bazzaz, Lynch and Burgess, 'Floor Tile Installation as a Source of Asbestos Exposure,' American Review of Respiratory Disease (1971)
Journal case report of two floor tile installers, one with biopsy-proved pleural mesothelioma and one with extensive pleural calcifications, who had sanded asphalt and vinyl-asbestos tile floors. The authors reported air sampling during simulated…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1971
Murphy, Levine, Al Bazzaz, Lynch and Burgess, 'Floor Tile Installation as a Source of Asbestos Exposure,' American Review of Respiratory Disease (1971)
Journal case report describing two floor tile installers, one with biopsy-proved pleural mesothelioma and one with extensive pleural calcifications, who had frequently sanded asphalt and vinyl-asbestos tile. The authors report air sampling in a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 1970
Gyan S. Rajhans, 'Fibrous Dust — Its Measurement and Control' (Dust Control in Mines and Industry, 1970)
A technical paper by an Ontario Department of Health dust control specialist on sampling and measuring fibrous (mainly asbestos) dust. It reviews konimeters, impingers, thermal precipitators and the membrane filter fibre-count method, and discusses…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Asbestos fibre in the lung and mesothelioma. A re-examination of the Malmö material
An examination of general lung tissue with an electron microscope for asbestos fibres is reported. The 65 cases examined consisted of 33 cases of pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma and 32 control cases. Asbestos fibres were found…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Occupational exposures to pollution
This article was a general overview of workplace exposure to pollutants, based on a talk the author gave at the Royal College of Physicians in November 1970. It reported no new research. The author discussed how…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 30, 1979
Sir Neville Stack (Asbestos International Association) to W. D. Kelley (ACGIH) Transmitting R. Gaze's Commentary on Proposed Crocidolite and Amosite TLVs (1979)
Letter from the Asbestos International Association's Director-General to the ACGIH asking that its proposed threshold limit values for crocidolite and amosite be modified, with an attached commentary by Dr. Richard Gaze. The commentary argues…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 1973
Malcolm W. Riley, Editorial 'The Familiar Aroma of Panic' on Press Coverage of Asbestos, Plastics Technology (1973)
One-page editorial in Plastics Technology (March 1973) arguing that the general press had overreacted to asbestos hazards. It cites OSHA and EPA actions and the 5 and 2 fiber/cu cm standards, and says no…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
The pathology of parietal pleural plaques
This 1971 autopsy study came from a Glasgow general hospital serving a heavily industrialized area near the Clyde shipyards. The author examined the chest linings of 334 hospital necropsies for hyaline plaques on the parietal pleura…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1975
Proceedings: Asbestos carcinogenesis
This summary of a talk at the 16th Annual General Meeting of the British Association for Cancer Research reviewed cancers in people exposed to asbestos dust and whether they were linked to specific fibre types. Lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Asbestos and asbestosis
This short 1970 paper was not a research study but a general overview. It was originally presented at a 1969 conference on asbestos exposure during brake and clutch maintenance, and the author was Group Medical Adviser…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
Effect of hyaluronate on the electrophoretic migration of plasma proteins in pleural fluid
This 1970 report from the Department of Clinical Chemistry at Malmö General Hospital, Sweden, described laboratory findings in pleural fluid from one patient, a 60-year-old welder with fluid around both lungs (bilateral pleural effusions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos-associated disease in employees of Devonport Dockyard
This paper, from Plymouth General Hospital, England, brought together surveys and follow-up studies of men at Devonport Dockyard, which employed some 15,000 men, after 1966. Past exposure had been to chrysotile and, in most…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 23, 1976
Harrison B. Rhodes (Asbestos Information Association) to Al Libra (California Manufacturer's Association) on California Carcinogen Registration and Avoiding an Asbestos 'Scare Campaign' (1976)
Letter transmitting an information package on asbestos to the California Manufacturer's Association's general counsel after a San Francisco meeting. It discusses California's registration and exemption proposals for carcinogens, expresses concern about a public…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1977
The significance of asbestos exposure in the diagnosis of mesothelioma: a 28-year experience from a major urban hospital
This retrospective study reviewed all 36 patients coded with diffuse malignant mesothelioma at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from 1945 through 1972. The authors classed 17 cases as asbestos related, 14 through shipyard trades. They classed 19…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Distant visceral metastases in pleural mesothelioma
This was an autopsy study from the pathology department of the Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, of 32 cases of pleural mesothelioma. Each case was confirmed under the microscope after a post-mortem examination. The article did…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos in tumours
This is a short abstract of a talk given at the 86th general meeting of the Association of Clinical Pathologists, by an author at the M.R.C. Pneumoconiosis Unit in Penarth, Glamorgan. It is not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Exfoliative cytology of diffuse mesothelioma
This article was a case series from the Pathology Department of the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. The authors described the cells found in fluid samples from 14 patients with diffuse mesothelioma: pleural fluid from 11…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 26, 1979
Harrison B. Rhodes to J. L. Myers on EPA Study of Asbestos-Related Disease in California Asbestos Mining Counties (1979)
Internal memo forwarding an attached EPA request for contractor bids on a study of asbestos-related diseases in the general population of California asbestos mining counties. Rhodes comments on the protocol, mentions a preliminary unpublished study…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 6, 1974
Floyd H. Larrison, Jr. to Contractors (Eastman, Coleman, Oxborrow) on the California Asbestos Safety Order and Respirator Use at the King City Mine (1974)
Letter from the King City operations manager to three contractors about a new asbestos safety order added to Article 110 of the California General Industry Safety Orders. It says contractors will be subject to the regulations…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 30, 1977
Customer Call Report on Contico's Trial of RG-600 in the "Amazon" Maid Truck (1977)
Metals Division customer call report on a call with Al Kroc, General Manager, Plastics, at Contico, whose objective was to determine the results of an initial trial. It records that RG-600 did not solve his…