427 results for “General Electric”, page 5 of 22
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 2, 1984
Sir Neville Stack to AIA Medical Advisory Panel Circulating Comments on the Medical Surveillance of Asbestos Workers (1984)
AIA memorandum, Director General Sir Neville Stack to the Medical Advisory Panel, 2 August 1984, transmitting two enclosures Letter from Dr. T. R. P. Goffe, Occupational Health Department, to Mr. H. Hardie, Turner & Newall PLC, 22…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 20, 1982
Bob Dyer (Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority) to Mark Tapp, Union Carbide, Transmitting June 1982 Monthly Waste Report, Texas City Industrial Landfill (1982)
Cover letter from the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority's assistant general manager to Union Carbide's Texas City office enclosing the June 1982 Monthly Report of Waste Received. The attached Texas City Industrial Landfill report…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 25, 1985
Asbestos International Association Memorandum to Member Associations on the Doll/Peto Report, with Press Releases and Press Conference Comment (1985)
Asbestos International Association memorandum, Director General (Sir Neville Stack) to Member Associations, on the Doll/Peto Report, 25 April 1985 Asbestos Information Centre press release on the Doll/Peto Report, 24 April 1985 Health and Safety…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1986
John Brady, "OSHA's New Asbestos Standards Tighten Exposure Levels, Controls," Occupational Health & Safety (December 1986)
Magazine article summarizing OSHA's 1986 revised asbestos standards for general industry and construction, including the reduced 0.2 f/cc PEL, a 0.1 f/cc action level, and a compliance timetable. It covers monitoring…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma in an urban hospital: clinical spectrum and trend in incidence over time
This retrospective review covered coded mesothelioma patients at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1973 through 1986. Of 75 cases, 64 were diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma; four peritoneal and seven benign fibrous cases were not analyzed. Of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Palliation of malignant ascites with a Tenckhoff catheter
This was a case report of one patient from the General Hospital, Birmingham. A 60-year-old man had a month of growing abdominal swelling and a painful, swollen right scrotum. For 20 years he had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Statistical analysis of data on airborne asbestos levels collected in an EPA survey of public buildings
Data from a recent EPA study of airborne asbestos levels in 49 buildings occupied by the General Services Administration (GSA) are statistically analyzed. The study focuses on differences between indoor and outdoor levels, and on differences…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Treatment of malignant tumors of the spermatic cord: a study of 10 cases and a review of the literature
This article described 10 patients treated at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston from 1940 through 1977 for malignant tumors of the spermatic cord, and reviewed 191 published cases. The article does not mention asbestos or any…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 24, 1987
R. W. Engle, Piping Technology Minutes on Replacing Asbestos with GRAFOIL in Valve and Piping Specifications (1987)
One-page Piping Technology entry prepared for inclusion in the Asbestos Task Force general meeting minutes (marked Agenda Item 4.3). It reports R. W. Engle's proposed plan to revise the valve and piping specifications…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 4, 1981
Glenn Frisby (Fred Daniel and Sons Insurance) to Kenneth Campbell, Montello, Inc., on Insurers' Refusal to Modify the Pollution Exclusion for Univis/Super Visbestos (1981)
Letter from Glenn Frisby to Kenneth Campbell about insurers' refusal to modify exclusion (f) General Liability policy form, Coverage E, page 13, with exclusion (f) (pollution) marked up Pages of mostly illegible OCR, apparently images of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Tetracycline sclerosis in the management of malignant pericardial effusion
Twenty-two patients with malignant pericardial effusion were seen at the Toronto General Hospital between 1979 and 1984. Under ECG monitoring, an indwelling Kifa catheter was inserted into the pericardial sac and then connected to a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Interpretation of pleural biopsy specimens and aspirates with the immunoperoxidase technique
This was a laboratory study of pleural tissue by pathologists at Southampton General Hospital. The authors tested whether staining for three markers of scavenger cells (alpha-1-antitrypsin, alpha-1-antichymotrypsin and lysozyme) could help tell…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Demonstration of pleural mesothelioma by gallium scan
This case report, from The Buffalo General Hospital in Buffalo, New York, described one 77-year-old man. Fluid around his right lung contained poorly differentiated cancer cells of unknown origin, and other tests, including a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos-related pleural thickening: effect of threshold criteria on interpretation
This study, from the radiology department of Massachusetts General Hospital, examined how the rule for what counts as pleural thickening on a chest X-ray changes survey results. Chest radiographs from 1,216 workers at six…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · August 29, 1984
T. P. Norris Customer Call Report on Fester de Mexico's Evaluation of HPO in Asphaltic Coating (1984)
A telephone call report on a follow-up with Ishmiel Martinez, General Manager of Fester de Mexico, S.A., about its evaluation of HPO in an asphaltic roof coating. The report states that HPO was less…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · September 11, 1985
Asbestos International Association Memo Circulating Gross Brake Dust Abstract, with Lewinsohn, Meigs and Teta Drafts on Connecticut Mesothelioma (1985)
Exhibit cover sheet (UC-1272) with handwritten folder label AIA memorandum, Director General Sir Neville Stack to Medical Advisory Panel, 11 Sept 1985, circulating the Gross brake dust abstract Title page: 'Asbestos-related Disease from Exposure…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 30, 1980
Asbestos Information Association 'News & Notes' of 30 June 1980, with Wall Street Journal Clippings on Johns-Manville and Asbestos Litigation (1980)
AIA News & Notes: Hart's 'Asbestos Health Hazards Compensation Act of 1980' (S.2847) and the CPSC general order held up in GAO review AIA News & Notes: contents of the CPSC general order, House panel hearing…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos fibres and the environment
This article in a British Medical Journal series on pollution reviewed what was known about asbestos fibres and the risk to the general public. The author first discussed why cancer risk differed between groups of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Ovarian cancer and talc: a case-control study
Opportunities for genital exposure to talc were assessed in 215 white females with epithelial ovarian cancers and in 215 control women from the general population matched by age, race, and residence. Ninety-two (42.8%) cases…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
The epidemiology and pathogenesis of malignant mesothelioma
In this brief review, the author set out to describe the general epidemiologic features of malignant mesothelioma of the pleura and peritoneum and to summarize understanding of how these tumors develop. He stated that, apart from…