5 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Health hazards of asbestos exposure
This conference paper followed asbestos insulation union members in the United States and Canada. It analyzed 12,051 men who reached 20 or more years since entering the trade: 77,391 man-years and 1,946…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Worker-sponsored survey for asbestosis: detection of occupational lung disease without a control group
…a cross-sectional survey, requested by a local union, of 57 white male workers at a small northeastern Massachusetts plant making asbestos wall board. The group was 52 of 56 active union members, three retirees and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…turnover. About one in 500 private-shipyard workers was an "asbestos worker," but other trades also had opportunity for exposure. They followed 440 insulation workers in nine shipyard union locals from 1967 through 1976. Of these…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 24, 1979
Nolan v. Johns-Manville Asbestos & Magnesia Materials Co. (1979)
…rays in 1957, a 1965 hospital stay where he was told he had pulmonary fibrosis, union articles from 1968, and a 1973 doctor's history saying he was told of asbestosis in 1957. Nolan said no…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · September 10, 1973 · in the opinion
Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation (1973)
…it dissolves as it hits your lungs. That was the question you get all the time. Q. Where would you have this discussion, in your Union Hall? A. On the jobs, just among the men. Q…