29 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · August 31, 1982 · in the opinion
Neal v. Carey Canadian Mines, Ltd. (1982)
…v., the Court must find as a matter of law that plaintiffs failed to advance sufficient facts to justify the verdict. Neville Chemical Co. v. Union Carbide Corp., 422 F.2d 1205 (3d Cir.), cert. denied…
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Court case · Washington Supreme Court · October 15, 1987
Lockwood v. AC & S, Inc. (1987)
…Harbor Island shipyard; Lake Union Drydock; Lake Union Drydock, Seattle; Puget Sound area shipyards; Puget Sound Bridge and Dredge (George Washington liner conversion) rigger Lake Union Drydock Seattle 1952-1972; rigger Puget Sound area shipyards 1942…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Radiological evidence of asbestos disease among ship repair workers
The authors examined union members at a shipyard limited to ship repair. All were 20 or more years from the start of their shipyard employment. Of those invited, 139 active and 147 retired workers were examined…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestosis among electricians
This cross-sectional study examined 38 of 39 eligible union electricians who had worked on renovating a specific building in May 1985, when asbestos exposure was documented. Exact exposure values were unknown, so the authors used…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Reactions of asbestos-exposed workers to notification and screening
This study asked asbestos-exposed paperworkers how they reacted to a union letter warning them of high risk for asbestos-related illness and offering free medical screening. They had worked at an acoustical tile and wallboard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
The relation among pulmonary function, chest roentgenographic abnormalities, and smoking status in an asbestos-exposed cohort
This cross-sectional study examined 681 male plumbers and pipefitters in a 1982-1984 union surveillance program in Seattle and Tacoma. Exposure was measured as years in the trade; the article does not identify the cohort…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: II. Radiologic signs of asbestosis among active workers
…metropolitan area sheet metal workers found that 29.3% of the workers with 20 years or more of union membership (a surrogate for years of exposure) had radiologic abnormalities characteristic of parenchymal and/or pleural asbestosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Analysis of mortality patterns and workers' compensation awards among asbestos insulation workers in Ontario
This study examined deaths and workers' compensation awards among 1,064 members of Local 95, the Ontario local of the asbestos insulation workers' union, followed to the end of 1985. Poor identifying information meant some deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Hazards of lung biopsy in asbestos workers
…asbestos insulation workers had lung biopsies and what happened afterwards. It drew on a union cohort of 17 800 insulation workers in the United States and Canada. Of 2907 living members who had reached 30 years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestosis: interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and pleural fibrosis in a cohort of asbestos insulation workers: influence of cigarette smoking
…first medical examination of 1,117 New York-New Jersey asbestos insulation workers, who were 89.4% of the 1,249 eligible union members. The films were reread using the 1971 International Labour Office classification without…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos: historical perspective
…study by Irving Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg of 632 men from two asbestos insulator union locals. Hammond suggested confining analysis to men with at least 20 years' work experience. That study recorded 255…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Physical and microchemical alterations of chrysotile and amosite asbestos in the hamster lung
The physical and microchemical alterations of chrysotile and amosite asbestos (Union International Contre le Cancer standard samples) in the hamster lung and in vitro following acid treatments were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and x…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · January 21, 1985 · in the opinion
Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1985)
…responsibility in the absence of legislation, to fashion federal common law in cases raising issues of uniquely federal concern." Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union of America, 451 U.S. 77, 95, 101 S.Ct…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · January 30, 1986 · in the opinion
Lohrmann v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1986)
…Appellees, and Johns-Manville Corporation, a New York Corporation; Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; Unarco Industries, Inc., formerly known as Union Asbestos & Rubber Company, an Illinois Corporation; Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, a Delaware Corporation…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · April 8, 1981 · in the opinion
Porter v. American Optical Corp. (1981)
…the general rule that the nature, validity and construction of a contract is to be determined by the law of the place where it was made. United States Leasing Corporation v. Keiler, 290 So.2d 427 …
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · March 23, 1984 · in the opinion
Adams v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984)
727 F.2d 533 (1984) Ernest E. ADAMS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORPORATION, etal., Defendants-Appellees. No. 82-4550. March 23, 1984. United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. [\534] Jane Saginaw, Brent W…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · October 5, 1981 · in the opinion
White v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)
…with Panacon Corporation, which was successor by merger of Briggs Manufacturing Company and Philip Carey Corporation; Unarco Industries, Inc., formerly known as Union Asbestos and Rubber Company; H. K. Porter Company, Thermoid Division, a Delaware Corporation…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · January 30, 1984 · in the opinion
Lowe v. Ingalls Shipbuilding, A Div. of Litton (1984)
…and those that are collateral, between disputes that are necessary and those that are merely possible."); Cox v. International Union of Operating Engineers, 672 F.2d 421, 422 (5th Cir.1982) (claim must be "\... founded "directly"…
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Court case · Indiana Supreme Court · October 26, 1982 · in the opinion
Bunker v. National Gypsum Co. (1982)
…from "earning full wages" equal to those he enjoyed at National Gypsum Company. He continued to work as a technical salesman for Grain Processing Corporation, the same "better employment" which had prompted him to voluntarily leave…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court · March 24, 1983 · in the opinion
Asbestos Insul. Co. v. Wcab (McGOVERN) (1983)
…including Asbestos for various periods between 1948 and 1974 and, since 1953, as a member of Local 14 of the Heat and Frost Insulators Union, engaged in the application of various insulation materials to pipes, conduits…