25 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Mineral phases and some reexamined characteristics of the International Union Against Cancer standard asbestos samples
Standard asbestos samples to be used for biomedical research were first prepared by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in 1966 in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Using modern techniques, X-ray diffractometry, analytical transmission…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Extended mortality follow-up among men and women in a U.S. furniture workers union
…and 1962 in union-organized U.S. shops and were found through United Furniture Workers of America insurance records. Most worked in furniture and related plants, but about 1% held nonmanufacturing jobs such as union staff…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Lung function and chest radiograph abnormalities among construction insulators
In 1988 the authors surveyed British Columbia heat and frost insulators' union members aged 50 or older. Of those invited, 59 of 73 active and 29 of 42 retired workers took part. Of the 88 insulators…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Irregular opacities in the lung, occupational asthma, and airways dysfunction in aluminum workers
This exploratory case-match study compared 670 aluminum workers from a union at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with 659 regional pipefitters who were not exposed to aluminum. Both groups had worked with asbestos. The article does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Beyond notification: a case study from Cloquet, Minnesota
…the Union was able to follow-up the notification and subsequent screening by sending members and their families the results of the initial screenings and other information concerning the status of any legal actions taken on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Fissural thickening and exposure to asbestos: occurrence, determinants, and functional impact
This study examined 147 male construction insulators from Local 58 of the insulators' union in the Montreal area. All were 50 or younger and none was compensated for asbestosis. The authors tested whether thickened interlobar fissures…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Proportionate mortality among construction laborers
This report presents the results of proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) analyses and proportionate cancer mortality ratio (PCMR) analyses among the 11,685 members of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA), who died between 1985…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos-related diseases in construction carpenters
…CI 0.3-7.1) defects. Although only 631 of a potential 7,649 active and retired union members participated in this first-time survey and were relatively young, these findings add new evidence to the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Assessing quality of life when planning and evaluating worker notification programs: two case examples
This short paper described two preliminary efforts, carried out with the United Paperworkers International Union, to take workers' quality of life into account when notifying them of health risks. The first case summarized an earlier project…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos screening and education programs for building and construction trades unions
…screening and education programs designed for the building and construction trades unions were a national multisite effort that focused on improving the health of eligible union members and retirees at high risk of developing asbestos-related…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Use of death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: variations in discordance of different asbestos-associated diseases on best evidence ascertainment
This was a prospective study of all 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. They were followed from January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Mortality patterns among electrical workers employed in the U.S. construction industry, 1982-1987
…mainly construction electricians, who died in the United States in 1982 to 1987. It used union death benefit records and death certificates. Records of members dropped for unpaid dues were not kept, so the authors used…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung health among boilermakers in Edmonton, Alberta
…boilermakers with 20 or more years of union membership and 100 telephone workers. Posteroanterior chest radiographs were evaluated by two experienced chest physicians, with a third arbitrating disagreed films. Union members were further categorized as boilermakers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Evaluation of selection bias in a cross-sectional survey
…insulation workers who took part in a medical survey differed from those who did not. In 1967 the authors enrolled 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Re: "Changing attitudes and opinions regarding asbestos and cancer 1934-1965"
…not an original research study. Its author, the administrator of an insulators' union health program, was responding to Dr. Philip Enterline's 1991 review of how scientists' opinions on asbestos and cancer changed between 1934 and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Radiographic abnormalities in asbestos insulators: effects of duration from onset of exposure and smoking. Relationships of dyspnea with parenchymal and pleural fibrosis
This cross-sectional study examined chest X-rays and shortness of breath in U.S. asbestos insulation workers from a union-based cohort. Examinations took place in 19 U.S. cities from November 1981 to November…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Parenchymal and pleural fibrosis in construction workers
…construction workers near Tampere, Finland. Of 993 eligible union members (members since at least 1967), 437 (44%) answered a questionnaire on asbestos and quartz dust exposure and had a chest X-ray. Eighty-one percent reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: inaccuracies in occupational categories
…two asbestos workers' cohorts. One (insulation workers) had current or recent employment and a strong, continuing union support system which gave them much information about the effects of asbestos exposure. The second cohort, asbestos factory workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Reginald Tage: a UK asbestos prophet--a postscript
…1992) of Reginald Tage, a former medical student who investigated asbestos disease at the Cape Asbestos factory at Barking and reported his surveys to the Trades Union Congress in January 1932. The author reproduced a factory…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Asbestos and cancer: an early warning to the British TUC
The author, a lawyer at the University of Birmingham, examined Trades Union Congress (TUC) archives held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The archives related to the drafting of Britain's Asbestos Industry Regulations…