25 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · January 8, 1998 · in the opinion
Ford Motor v. Wood (1998)
…a duty to warn of dangers inherent in maintaining and repairing the manufacturer's products, do not persuade us to the contrary. Bich v. General Electric Co., 27 Wash.App. 25, 614 P.2d 1323 (1980)…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · November 15, 1994 · in the opinion
Becker v. Baron Bros. (1994)
…Moreover, after studying the air in the service stations of several General Motors dealerships, he determined that the level of fibers in the air was under the threshold limit value for chrysotile established by the Conference…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · August 31, 1990 · in the opinion
Celotex Corp. v. Tate (1990)
…into a hopper, scooped it from the hopper onto a scale, and carried it to the mixer. Tate also worked as an electrician at the plant, and the evidence reflected that, in this capacity, he was…
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Court case · California Supreme Court · August 28, 1997 · in the opinion
Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997)
…contained both amosite and chrysotile asbestos fibers. John McKinley, who worked as an electrician at Mare Island, recalled working with Rutherford in the early 1950's. He testified that Rutherford and he were often required to…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · August 17, 1998 · in the opinion
Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1998)
…that exposure sufficient to cause asbestosis is also sufficient to cause mesothelioma, lung cancer, and pleural plaques. \[18\] The crafts were divided into four general groupings: "Production Crafts" (some thirteen in all, including e.g. pumper…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Chrysotile biopersistence in the lungs of persons in the general population and exposed workers
…form, with both fibers and fibrils > 5 microns in length. Comparison of the lung fiber content of occupationally exposed persons with that of the general population showed marked qualitative and quantitative differences. Fibers are durable…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas · September 30, 1996
Blase v. Allied Signal Inc. (1996)
Mildred Blase sued several companies after the death of her husband, Harold Blase, an auto mechanic at Bell of Pennsylvania. She claimed that working with the defendants' products, which allegedly contained asbestos, caused his lung cancer and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Nature of exposure to chrysotile
Fibres in general, and chrysotile fibres in particular, have properties that set them apart from other airborne particles in terms of their aerodynamic behaviour and the nature of their interactions with cells and fluids in vivo…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Tissue burden of asbestos in nonoccupationally exposed individuals from east Texas
The potential for asbestos exposure among members of the general population is appreciable, considering its widespread use in many products. This study examined tissue burden of asbestos in such a population. A group of 33 individuals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos lung burden and asbestosis after occupational and environmental exposure in an asbestos cement manufacturing area: a necropsy study
This necropsy (autopsy) study examined lung tissue from the consecutive autopsies done at the General Hospital of Casale Monferrato, Italy, home to a large asbestos cement factory, from July 1985 to July 1988. Of 55 autopsies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos content of lung tissue, lymph nodes, and pleural plaques from former shipyard workers
…in tissue taken at autopsy from eight former shipyard workers, aged 58 to 82, at the General Hospital of Monfalcone, a shipyard town in northeastern Italy. Seven had work histories of 6 to 46 years in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…a letter to The Lancet, not a research study, written by a health and safety co-ordinator at the UK Transport and General Workers Union. It responded to a May 9, 1998 commentary by Mark Cullen…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Mortality from a Chinese asbestos plant: overall cancer mortality
…chrysotile. The plant made brake shoes, textiles and rope. Deaths were compared with Qingdao's general population. The text reports 22 cancers causing 21 deaths, though the table lists 22 cancer deaths against 11.17 expected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…current or ex-smokers, against less than 0.5% of women. Compared with the general population, lung cancer mortality was estimated at about 17-fold in men and four-fold in women. People tended to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Nonoccupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos and the risk of lung cancer
…and crocidolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The laboratory's maximal general-population background for amosite plus crocidolite is 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The second and third had asbestosis at autopsy…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · January 17, 1995 · in the opinion
Sparks v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1995)
…the court was confronted with a complicated claim that General Motors' defective design of the wheel assembly and front floorboard enhanced the injuries the plaintiff suffered when another car collided with the left front wheel area…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Augmentation of chrysotile-induced oxidative stress by BHA in mice lungs
Asbestos is known to induce oxidative stress in the lung. The consumption of butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) in preserved food and soft drinks is increasing in the general population, which includes workers in asbestos factories. Because there…
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Court case · Missouri Supreme Court · September 10, 1991
Hagen v. Celotex Corp. (1991)
…A plaintiff must show through expert testimony that each defendant's product was a substantial factor in causing the harm. Evidence showing only asbestos exposure in general, or that a defendant's product may have contributed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Carcinogenesis and related cell and tissue responses to asbestos: a review
…of lung cancer. Several caveats important in the interpretation of these data include the general lack of dose-response protocols both for in vivo and for in vitro studies as well as the absence, in many…