6 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos-associated deaths among insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1967-1987
…insulation workers, the authors reported 20 years of mortality follow-up of insulators. The cohort comprised 17,800 men enrolled in the insulators' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967. They were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos disease in construction, refinery, and shipyard workers
…workers, and how shipyard work and cigarette smoking affected it. Workers were recruited through local unions if their first asbestos exposure was at least 15 years earlier and had lasted 5 years. From 1986 to 1989…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Decline in death rates among asbestos insulation workers 1967-1986 associated with diminution of work exposure to asbestos
This prospective study followed the mortality of 17,800 men who belonged to the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986. They had used insulation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Dangerous and cancer-causing properties of products and chemicals in the oil-refining and petrochemical industries. Part IX: Asbestos exposure and analysis of exposures
…chest X-ray abnormalities in refinery and petrochemical workers, and historical reports of asbestos hazards. In 1990 a questionnaire was mailed to Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers local unions representing many companies, including Mobil, Chevron, Shell…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
The Third Wave of Asbestos Disease: Exposure to Asbestos in Place--Public Health Control. Conference. New York, New York, June 7-9, 1990
…author described a third phase of disease, from asbestos already in place. Of 17,800 insulation union members in the United States and Canada, 4,951 died in 1967-1986. On best evidence there were 1…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Swedish approaches to industry-wide studies: the construction industry
…health program. The author described following three groups through national death and cancer registries: workers identified in the 1960 and 1970 censuses; about 30,000 painters' union members, 20,000 plumbers and 1,500 insulation workers;…