297 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 10 of 15
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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 · 1994
Spirometric impairments in long-term insulators. Relationships to duration of exposure, smoking, and radiographic abnormalities
This study examined breathing tests (spirometry) and chest X-rays in 2,611 men from the asbestos insulators' union. They were examined in 19 US and Canadian cities in 1981 to 1983; 87 percent were at…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Airway obstruction in asbestos-exposed shipyard workers: with and without irregular opacities
This cross-sectional study measured breathing function by spirometry in 296 male Caucasian boilermakers from a Jacksonville, Florida union local. All had been exposed to asbestos in shipyards, mostly in ship repair, at least 15 years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
The relationship between respiratory impairment and asbestos-related pleural abnormality in an active work force
This cross-sectional study examined 110 construction insulators aged 35 and older who were still at work, drawn from a Quebec insulators' union local. The authors asked whether asbestos-related pleural abnormality, especially isolated pleural plaques…
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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 · 1993
Lung function in insulation workers
…materials (rock and glass wool), the members of the Copenhagen Union of Insulation Workers were invited to participate in a study based on a health examination that included lung function tests. Three hundred and forty men…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Industrial hygiene review of three manufacturing facilities in Senegal: findings and key questions
…cement formulating facility, chosen by the Senegalese Ministry of Labor. The review used structured interviews with management and union representatives and walkthrough inspections with limited monitoring of noise, total dust and volatile organic compounds. The article…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis and impaired lung function
…test results in asbestos-exposed sheet metal workers. In 1986 the sheet metal workers' union offered medical examinations to members with at least 25 years in the trade. The authors analysed 1,211 male workers from…
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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 · 1999
Documenting the asbestos story in Sarnia
…clinic in Windsor, Ontario, expressed its concerns about the health of former workers at a foundry and insulation plant in Sarnia to the Canadian Auto Workers union early in 1998. The workers suffered cancer, respiratory and…
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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 · 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 · 1993
Asbestos-related radiographic abnormalities in elevator construction workers
…screening held in November 1988. The screening covered members of the Philadelphia Local of the International Union of Elevator Constructors who had belonged to the union for at least 20 years. Ninety-one men took part…
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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 · 1995
The international chrysotile asbestos scandal
…the Alliance Against Asbestos, a coalition of environmental, health care, labor union and asbestos-victim groups, and it reports no new medical data. It opposed a revision of a 1986 asbestos guidance document, Environmental Health Criteria…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Determinants of restrictive lung function in asbestos-induced pleural fibrosis
…lung volumes. The authors studied 24 sheet metal workers, chosen from 1,211 screened in a union program, all never or former smokers with no lung scarring on chest X-ray: seven with normal pleura, nine…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestotic radiological abnormalities among United States merchant marine seamen
…United States merchant marine seamen, taken in 1985-7. Members on union lists of about 10,000 active and retired seamen were invited for an x-ray, and roughly half came. One experienced B reader read…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos-related diseases and asbestos types used in the former GDR
…insulation and fire prevention material, etc. in the large-scale chemical industry. Chrysotile was predominantly imported from the former Soviet Union, partly from Canada. Very small amounts of amphiboles came from Mozambique, but they were not…