14 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Radiological evidence of asbestos disease among ship repair workers
The authors examined union members at a shipyard limited to ship repair. All were 20 or more years from the start of their shipyard employment. Of those invited, 139 active and 147 retired workers were examined…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Reactions of asbestos-exposed workers to notification and screening
This study asked asbestos-exposed paperworkers how they reacted to a union letter warning them of high risk for asbestos-related illness and offering free medical screening. They had worked at an acoustical tile and wallboard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Use of death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: variations in discordance of different asbestos-associated diseases on best evidence ascertainment
This was a prospective study of all 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. They were followed from January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: II. Radiologic signs of asbestosis among active workers
…metropolitan area sheet metal workers found that 29.3% of the workers with 20 years or more of union membership (a surrogate for years of exposure) had radiologic abnormalities characteristic of parenchymal and/or pleural asbestosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Analysis of mortality patterns and workers' compensation awards among asbestos insulation workers in Ontario
This study examined deaths and workers' compensation awards among 1,064 members of Local 95, the Ontario local of the asbestos insulation workers' union, followed to the end of 1985. Poor identifying information meant some deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Evaluation of selection bias in a cross-sectional survey
…insulation workers who took part in a medical survey differed from those who did not. In 1967 the authors enrolled 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Re: "Changing attitudes and opinions regarding asbestos and cancer 1934-1965"
…not an original research study. Its author, the administrator of an insulators' union health program, was responding to Dr. Philip Enterline's 1991 review of how scientists' opinions on asbestos and cancer changed between 1934 and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Parenchymal and pleural fibrosis in construction workers
…construction workers near Tampere, Finland. Of 993 eligible union members (members since at least 1967), 437 (44%) answered a questionnaire on asbestos and quartz dust exposure and had a chest X-ray. Eighty-one percent reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestosis: interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and pleural fibrosis in a cohort of asbestos insulation workers: influence of cigarette smoking
…first medical examination of 1,117 New York-New Jersey asbestos insulation workers, who were 89.4% of the 1,249 eligible union members. The films were reread using the 1971 International Labour Office classification without…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: inaccuracies in occupational categories
…two asbestos workers' cohorts. One (insulation workers) had current or recent employment and a strong, continuing union support system which gave them much information about the effects of asbestos exposure. The second cohort, asbestos factory workers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Reginald Tage: a UK asbestos prophet--a postscript
…1992) of Reginald Tage, a former medical student who investigated asbestos disease at the Cape Asbestos factory at Barking and reported his surveys to the Trades Union Congress in January 1932. The author reproduced a factory…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Asbestos and cancer: an early warning to the British TUC
The author, a lawyer at the University of Birmingham, examined Trades Union Congress (TUC) archives held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The archives related to the drafting of Britain's Asbestos Industry Regulations…
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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 · 1995
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Asbestos Program 1987-1992
…the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) implemented a nationwide asbestos program aimed at preventing asbestos-related risks in good cooperation with governmental authorities, industry, trade unions, the health care and insurance systems, and mass media…