4 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Short fiber tremolite free chrysotile mesothelioma cohort revealed
In 1995, Dell and Teta published a cohort mortality study of asbestos molding compound workers at a Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) plastics manufacturing plant in Bound Brook, New Jersey. They reported that the factory workers were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Mortality among sheet metal workers participating in a respiratory screening program
This study followed 17,345 sheet metal workers who had been union members for 20 or more years and were screened by chest x-ray at 62 sites nationwide between 1986 and 2004. The authors traced…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Mortality among shipbreaking workers in Taiwan--a retrospective cohort study from 1985 to 2008
…are lacking. This study examined mortality among shipbreaking workers over a 24-year follow-up period. A total of 4,962 shipbreaking workers were recruited from the database of the Kaohsiung Shipbreaking Workers Union. The data…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Latency attention deficit: Asbestos abatement workers need us to investigate
…enforcement resources are limited. A significant proportion of asbestos abatement workers are foreign-born, and may face numerous challenges in achieving safe workplaces, including lack of union representation, economic vulnerability, and inadequate training. Public health surveillance…