329 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 10 of 17
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Man-made respirable-sized organic fibers: what do we know about their toxicological profiles?
…are identified and some fundamental tenets of fiber toxicology are discussed. In addition, the European Union, in their recent consideration for banning chrysotile asbestos fibers, evaluated some organic fiber substitutes and compared them to the hazards…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Assessing truck driver exposure at the World Trade Center disaster site: personal and area monitoring for particulate matter and volatile organic compounds during October 2001 and April 2002
…as well as area monitoring that was conducted directly on site during October 2001 and April 2002. In cooperation with a local labor union, 54 drivers (October) and 15 drivers (April) were recruited on site to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Free radical activity of natural and heat treated amphibole asbestos
This was a laboratory study of two amphibole asbestos minerals, amosite and crocidolite, using standard reference samples from the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC). No people, animals or cells were studied. The authors calcined (heated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Participatory mapping of occupational hazards and disease among asbestos-exposed workers from a foundry and insulation complex in Canada
…complex in Sarnia, Ontario. The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers union did it to support compensation claims. Former workers drew 'hazard maps' of their workplaces from memory. Foundry workers described…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
The phase-out of asbestos in the Australian manufacturing environment
…asbestos workers. The threat of future asbestos exposures remains for maintenance workers. An example is given of the need for continued vigilance of workers and their unions before the manufacturing environment can be relatively asbestos-free.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Human cancer from environmental pollutants: the epidemiological evidence
…to cancer. Using meta-analyses, pooled analyses and selected studies, it estimated attributable cancer cases in the European Union for 2002. For residential asbestos exposure, mainly from outdoor pollution near asbestos mining or manufacturing, a cited…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Protest and survive, the U.K. Construction Safety Campaign: a case study of workers' and victims' family action and legal and regulatory inaction on construction health and safety
The U.K. Construction Safety Campaign, based on grass-roots rank-and-file trade union activity, has both a domestic agenda and a wider sphere with regard to international developments. Using organized protests and media exposure…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · December 13, 2007
Briggs v. General Electric Co. (2007)
…Mr. Briggs was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 1995. He was a union electrician who worked at many construction sites from about 1952 to 1993. He alleged that in the early 1950s, while working as an apprentice…
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · March 1, 2001
Mackie v. Young Sales Corp. (2001)
…the maximum weekly rate, against Young Sales Corporation. An employee's voluntary retirement does not preclude workers' compensation benefits for an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of employment, and benefits may be…
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Court case · Alabama Supreme Court · September 8, 2000
Ex parte Wilkerson (2000)
…The Alabama Supreme Court reviewed when his claim accrued. In 1984 he attended a union meeting about asbestos and took a screening exam. In 1985 he received a physician's report noting mild restrictive lung dysfunction…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · November 5, 2003
In re Sears, Roebuck and Co. (2003)
…s dusty clothes, as a plumbing apprentice in the family business from 1971 to 1978, and as a union plumber afterward. He identified only Homart boilers and water heaters as Sears-related products. The plaintiffs sent…
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Court case · Rhode Island Superior Court · May 14, 2009
Benoit v. AW Smith Corporation (2009)
…sites in Vermont and New Hampshire; new building boiler installations union plumber commercial and residential sites in Vermont and New Hampshire 1951 to 1990; mid-1950s onward as union plumber; union plumber new building boiler installations
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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 · 2003
Contribution of environmental factors to cancer risk
…other indoor air pollution, and drinking water contaminants such as arsenic. Where possible they estimated case numbers for the 15-country European Union. For asbestos, they tabulated studies of mesothelioma and lung cancer in people exposed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Science is not sufficient: Irving J. Selikoff and the asbestos tragedy
…had not used, and on interviews with colleagues. They reported that Selikoff personally received no funds to direct a union-supported program, that he favored controlling asbestos hazards rather than campaigning for a ban, and that…
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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
Asbestosis in the Republic of Croatia
…of asbestos. Croatia as a transitional country is subject to socioeconomic pressures. Future approaches to the asbestos issue will depend on revised regulations, which are expected to conform to recommendations of the European Union by 2005.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Is your hospital safe?
…Provisions created in 2006 by Jackson Memorial Hospital and Service Employees International Union Local 1991 required the employer to tell employees about known asbestos-containing materials in their work areas and to notify them of scheduled…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
"Make history but don't forget the past"
…Australia, on 24 November 2004. The author spoke as a life member of the wharf section of the Maritime Workers Union. The speech reports no data collection or analysis. The author recalled that health department officials…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos in Italy
Asbestos-related diseases remain common in Italy due to past exposures that were tolerated by a government distracted and manipulated by multinational asbestos corporations. The incidence of asbestos-related cancers has taken on almost epidemic proportions…