10 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Proportionate mortality among unionized roofers and waterproofers
The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers (UURWAW) is one of the 15 building and construction trades departments in the AFL-CIO. The U.S. roofing industry, including both roofing and waterproofing applications, both…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Proportionate mortality study of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry
…but not in 1987 or 1995. Despite the limitations of a PMR analysis, study results indicate mortality related to asbestos exposure is, and will continue to be, an area of concern for members of the union.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
A proportionate mortality study of bricklayers and allied craftworkers
Mortality among members of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (IUBAC) is examined. Bricklayers and allied craft workers may be exposed to cobalt, epoxy resins, pitch, lime, and to lung carcinogens such as asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Safety and health of heavy equipment operators at Ground Zero
This report came from the head of an International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) safety and health team that arrived at Ground Zero, the World Trade Center site, on September 17, 2001. The team collected about…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Asbestos update
…an Asian Asbestos Conference in Bangkok with delegates from 26 countries, and a European Union awareness campaign launched in September 2006. The last was a mesothelioma research meeting in Chicago with more than 300 attendees from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
The prevalence of pleural plaques and/or pulmonary changes among construction workers in Okayama, Japan
…this as within the Japanese legal standard but far above a WHO standard. Second, specialists read chest x-rays of 2,951 male union construction workers in Okayama, Japan, and workers with findings had chest CT…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
The doctors and the dockers
…provided jointly by a Consultant Chest Physician, the Port Medical Officer, and the Medical Advisor to the Trades Union Congress, declared that they knew of no disease affecting dockers, and stated that intermittent exposure to asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH): prevention and detection of asbestos-related diseases, 1987-2005
…worker protection programs, the import of asbestos was ceased in 1993 with a few exceptions. Almost all imports ceased in 2005 following European Union directives. Regulation of asbestos abatement companies has been greatly increased. The occupational…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
RE: Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2000. 37:275-282
…refinery. They also noted that Selikoff et al. (1979) reported many such cases among union contract workers, who had the heaviest asbestos exposures but were not included in company studies. The authors concluded that there can…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Mortality among unionized construction plasterers and cement masons
…cement masons who entered the union after 1950. The present study suggests that plasterers and cement masons still have elevated risks for certain diseases, especially lung and stomach cancer. Therefore, union members currently living should be…