329 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 11 of 17
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Failure to prove asbestos exposure produces obstructive lung disease
…cigarette smoking, lung function and chest radiograph abnormalities in 3,383 patients referred mainly by plaintiff attorneys and trade union members. He noted that the study had reported clinically significant airflow obstruction as well as restrictive…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Non-malignant occupational respiratory diseases in Germany in comparison with those of other countries
…in bakeries, the health care sector, farming, and mining. Furthermore, there is a urgent need for harmonization of recognition and compensation systems for occupational diseases as well as of respective preventive strategies within the European Union.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
History of asbestos related disease
…workers, other users of asbestos products and people living near factories, and that stricter British and US rules and a European Union ban on chrysotile followed. It reported that whether SV40 virus causes mesothelioma remained unclear…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos dispatches
…use, industry promotion in India, and Canada's role in blocking international listing of chrysotile. It reported national bans in 13 of 15 European Union states and in Australia, and a Japanese order, effective October 2004…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Translating evidence about occupational conditions into strategies for prevention
…presented the process as three linked boxes: sources of evidence (toxicology, epidemiology, occupational medicine, occupational hygiene, unions and workers), scientific, social and economic influencing factors, and prevention strategies. Eight case studies illustrated the process: vinyl chloride…
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · June 1, 2009 · in the opinion
CSX Transp., Inc. v. Hensley (2009)
Union Pacific R. Co., 210 S.W.3d 220 (2006), cert. denied, 552 U.S. 812, 128 S.Ct. 59, 169 L.Ed.2d 15 (2007) — have read footnote 19 as I do. These courts have…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Exposure of UK industrial plumbers to asbestos, Part II: Awareness and responses of plumbers to working with asbestos during a survey in parallel with personal sampling
Throughout the European Union, millions tonnes of asbestos were used in the manufacture of products for building and for industrial installations. Today, in the UK, it is estimated that over half a million non-domestic premises…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Predictions of mortality from pleural mesothelioma in Italy: a model based on asbestos consumption figures supports results from age-period-cohort models
Italy was the second main asbestos producer in Europe, after the Soviet Union, until the end of the 1980s, and raw asbestos was imported on a large scale until 1992. The Italian pattern of asbestos consumption…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Asbestos-related health risks in Estonia
…Cancer of the World Health Organization. Since 1983, the European Union has enforced health protection directions in this field, which have been the basis for legal acts of Member States. The Estonian Republic is a country…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Mesothelioma and environmental exposure
…mesothelial cells to crocidolite and chrysotile asbestos fibers. Chemically pure and pretreated Union Internationale Centre le Cancer (UICC) samples were implanted into a peritoneal envelope (Kertai's fold) of Wistar rats. Following the 12-month exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
ILO to promote global asbestos ban
…s biggest ever industrial killer. The landmark decision came with the adoption of a resolution on 14 June 2006 at the ILO conference in Geneva and followed a high level union campaign. Rory O'Neill asked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Asbestos poisons World Trade Organization atmosphere
…September 2000, a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel published its findings in the dispute between Canada and the European Union/France over France's ban on the import and use of chrysotile (white asbestos). The panel…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 13, 2009
Silvestro v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. (2009)
…and Settlement Credits; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: his home and side construction jobs; engine rooms on ships union cement mason on residential and commercial construction projects 1946-1966; side construction jobs hanging drywall; home remodeling…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · June 10, 2008
Ford Motor Company v. Miller (2008)
…Medical Monitoring Worksites: Ford River Rouge complex; Ford Rouge facility, Detroit; Roland's home union laborer repairing, tearing out, and rebuilding blast furnaces Ford Rouge facility Detroit 1954-1965; step-daughter who washed Roland's work…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · December 30, 2004
Root v. Eastern Refractories Co., Inc. (2004)
…blankets at the site is enough to defeat summary judgment. Product Identification; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Syracuse University; Syracuse University, Syracuse journeyman insulator for the Asbestos Workers Union Syracuse University Syracuse 1962-1964; 1967-1968
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Bilateral environmental and occupational health program with India
…Occupational Health, which was approved by the Minister of the Indian Union of Health and Family Welfare and the Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United State in Geneva in May of 2002, formalizes…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
The fallout from asbestos
…the UK and the USA. He summarised international action. The European Union had banned asbestos and started a programme to prevent exposure, the International Labour Organization had endorsed a ban in 2006, and at least 40…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Asbestosis in an asbestos composite mill at Mumbai: a prevalence study
…and medically certify them, whereupon they could avail of their basic rights to obtain compensation and proper treatment. The study was conducted by the Occupational Health and Safety Centre and the Workers' Union. Asbestosis was diagnosed…
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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…