5 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
A case-control study of malignant and non-malignant respiratory disease among employees of a fiberglass manufacturing facility. II. Exposure assessment
A case-control study of malignant and non-malignant respiratory disease among employees of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation's Newark, Ohio plant was undertaken. The aim was to determine the extent to which exposures to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Measurement of asbestos dust levels in British asbestos factories in the 1930s
…which treated the average dust level of spinners as a "dust datum." Those data came from 51 samples in eight factories, taken with an Owens Jet Counter, which could not tell asbestos fibers from other particles…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Health survey of former workers in a Norwegian coke plant: Part. 1. Estimation of historical exposures
…monoxide (CO) and heat) based on measurements and other indicators of exposure. Exposure to PAHs was highest for those who worked at the top of the ovens (300 micrograms/m3) in the period from 1970-6…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Medico-legal issues in occupational lung disease litigation
…groups. The case settled confidentially in July 1991. The authors explained that a physician retained by an attorney to examine radiographs or a claimant owes a duty of care to the attorney, not the patient, though…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Difficulties of attribution of effect in workers exposed to fiberglass and asbestos
…0.46) was also elevated. Although only 78% of fiberglass production workers gave histories of asbestos exposure, all had shared the air in a manufacturing plant where ovens insulated with asbestos were continuously cleaned, repaired, dismantled…