683 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 23 of 35
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Wyoming · April 7, 2014
Johnson v. Allis-Chalmers Corporation Product Liability Trust (2014)
…plant, Green River carpenter Dave Johnston Power Plant 1952-1963; Business Agent (carpenters union representative) Jim Bridger Power Plant 1963-1978; Business Agent (carpenters union representative) FMC Green River soda ash plant Green River 1963-1978
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · December 10, 2014
Whatley v. Eagle, Inc. (2014)
…appropriate. Premises Owner Liability; Personal Jurisdiction; Venue, Removal and Transfer; Wrongful Death and Survival; Loss of Consortium Worksites: Veteran's Administration Medical Center union member of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 141 Veteran's Administration Medical Center
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
From Awareness to Action: The Community of Sarnia Mobilizes to Protect its Workers from Occupational Disease
…and perseverance. We found that improvements in occupational health and safety came from persistently communicating a clearly defined issue ("asbestos exposure causes cancer") and having an engaged community that collaborated with union leadership. Notable successes included…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Infra Red Spectroscopy of the Regulated Asbestos Amphiboles
…of the five regulated amphibole species: anthophyllite, amosite, and crocidolite, provided by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Organization, and tremolite and actinolite, from two well-known occurrences. The data from these reference samples have…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
The Tale of Asbestos in Sweden 1972-1986-The Pathway to a Near-Total Ban
…extensive charting of asbestos sources on a tripartite basis, involving government agencies, and employer and trade-union organizations. Restrictive asbestos management practices were enforced from July 1982. The year 1985 saw the Government Asbestos Commission review…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Asbestos in Poland: occupational health problems
…supervises. The authors reported that Poland imported about 2 million tonnes of asbestos after 1945, mostly chrysotile from the former Soviet Union. Crocidolite and small amounts of amosite were also used until the mid 1980s. From…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Global Asbestos Disaster
…of which work-related exposures are responsible for 233,000 deaths (222,322⁻242,802). In the European Union, United States of America and in other high income economies (World Health Organization regional classification) the direct costs…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Occupational burden of asbestos-related cancer in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
…Health Organization. Estimates of how many workers in each economic sector were exposed to asbestos were not available for the countries studied, so the authors used European Union figures from 1990 to 1993. For mesothelioma, the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
A camel through the eye of a needle: expertise and the late recognition of asbestos-related diseases
…as finite and controllable. Second, the alternative approach to asbestos hazard management proposed by the Spanish trade union Comisiones Obreras in the early 1980s, inspired by the so-called Italian workers' model, prioritized locally produced knowledge…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
European Code against Cancer 4th Edition: Environment, occupation and cancer
…and mesothelioma. Significant amounts of air pollutants - mainly from road transport and industry - continue to be emitted in the European Union (EU); an increased occurrence of lung cancer has been attributed to air pollution even in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Exporting death made in Quebec
…public health tragedy for Canada and the rest of the world. The author stated that over 40 countries, including the European Union, had banned chrysotile. The author also stated that Quebec's chrysotile went mostly to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Pulmonary fibrosis in workers exposed to non-asbestiform tremolite asbestos minerals
…Taiwan, compared those who processed nephrite (jade), described by the authors as non-asbestiform tremolite, with other stone workers. Of 1902 stone union members invited, 344 enrolled. After exclusions, 305 workers were analyzed, 53 of whom…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Asbestosis: Past voices from the Mumbai factory floor
…two knew their breathing illness came from their past work. The other 15 did not know about their illness until their union began a screening program. Only 3 of the 17 said they had used masks…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Re: Paradis G. Ban all production and export of chrysotile asbestos [Editor's Page]. Can J Public Health 2010;101(5):352
…Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Medical Association for aligning with United Nations agencies and the European Union in calling for the elimination of asbestos use and export. The author argued…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Parenchymal asbestosis due to primary asbestos exposure among ship-breaking workers: report of the first cases from Bangladesh
…among current workers in Bangladesh. They said their sample was small, biased and selected by the union. They also said exposure could not be measured and that workers moved between jobs, so different tasks could not…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · January 29, 2013 · in the opinion
Walston v. Boeing Company (2013)
\[2\] Stewart also complained to his union about the asbestos exposure, and the union recommended that he write a letter documenting the exposure for his medical file. \[3\] For example, in December 1972, Boeing issued Industrial…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Iron topochemistry and surface reactivity of amphibole asbestos: relations with in vitro toxicity
Chemical reactivity of asbestos tremolite from Italy and USA localities and Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) crocidolite was studied in relation to Fe content, oxidation state, and structural coordination. Direct correlation between amount of Fe…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 21, 2013 · in the opinion
Tkk USA, Inc. v. Safety National Casualty Corp. (2013)
2003) (collecting cases); Laborers' Int'l Union of N. Am. v. Caruso, 197 F.3d 1195, 1197 (7th Cir. 1999) (arguments not presented to district court in response to summary judgment are waived). Second, the Safety…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · September 8, 2015 · in the opinion
Estenson v. Caterpillar Inc. (2015)
…determination of the admissibility of expert testimony is within the discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion." Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Commercial Union Ins. Co., 142 Wn.2d 654…
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Court case · Delaware Court of Chancery · January 11, 2018 · in the opinion
Aiu Insurance Company v. Philips Electronics North America Corporation (2018)
…COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA, GRANITE STATE INSURANCE COMPANY, LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY, and NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH, PA., Plaintiffs, v. PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NORTH AMERICA CORPORATION, T H AGRICULTURE & NUTRITION, L.L.C. and THE T…