21 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Report and recommendations of the working group on asbestos and cancer; convened under the auspices of the Geographical Pathology Section of the International Union against Cancer
This is not a research study. It is the report of a Working Group convened by the Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union against Cancer, which met in New York in October 1964 with forty…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Health hazards of asbestos exposure
This conference paper followed asbestos insulation union members in the United States and Canada. It analyzed 12,051 men who reached 20 or more years since entering the trade: 77,391 man-years and 1,946…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Mortality experience of insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1943--1976
…New Jersey union locals on January 1, 1943, followed to December 31, 1976, plus 833 men who joined these locals in 1943-1962. The other comprised all 17,800 members of the insulation workers' union in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos-associated deaths among insulation workers in the United States and Canada, 1967-1987
…insulation workers, the authors reported 20 years of mortality follow-up of insulators. The cohort comprised 17,800 men enrolled in the insulators' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967. They were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The occurrence of asbestosis among insulation workers in the United States
The authors surveyed the 1,522 men who belonged to the New York (Local 12) and New Jersey (Local 32) insulation workers' union locals at any time from 1942 to 1962. Of the 1,258 still…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos disease in construction, refinery, and shipyard workers
…workers, and how shipyard work and cigarette smoking affected it. Workers were recruited through local unions if their first asbestos exposure was at least 15 years earlier and had lasted 5 years. From 1986 to 1989…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Mortality of brain tumors among asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada
This prospective cohort study followed 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, recording deaths through December 31, 1979. The men mainly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Decline in death rates among asbestos insulation workers 1967-1986 associated with diminution of work exposure to asbestos
This prospective study followed the mortality of 17,800 men who belonged to the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986. They had used insulation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Based on available data, can we project an acceptable standard for industrial use of asbestos? Perhaps
This was not a research study but a commentary by the author, of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, on whether an acceptable standard for industrial asbestos exposure could be set. It reported no new data…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Lung cancer and mesothelioma during prospective surveillance of 1249 asbestos insulation workers, 1963-1974
…for 1249 union asbestos insulation workers in the New York metropolitan area, followed from January 1, 1963 to December 31, 1974. They were 370 older men who were already union members by 1942 and 879 younger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Dangerous and cancer-causing properties of products and chemicals in the oil-refining and petrochemical industries. Part IX: Asbestos exposure and analysis of exposures
…chest X-ray abnormalities in refinery and petrochemical workers, and historical reports of asbestos hazards. In 1990 a questionnaire was mailed to Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers local unions representing many companies, including Mobil, Chevron, Shell…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Neoplasia among insulation workers in the United States with special reference to intra-abdominal neoplasia
…an extension of the authors' earlier report, followed members of New York Local 12 and Newark Local 32 of the insulation workers' union. The authors described the men as having had very light and intermittent exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…turnover. About one in 500 private-shipyard workers was an "asbestos worker," but other trades also had opportunity for exposure. They followed 440 insulation workers in nine shipyard union locals from 1967 through 1976. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
The occurrence of pleural calcification among asbestos insulation workers
…then presented an X-ray survey of asbestos insulation workers. The author studied 1,258 union insulation workers in the New York-New Jersey area and examined 1,117 of them in 1963-1964, using standard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
The Third Wave of Asbestos Disease: Exposure to Asbestos in Place--Public Health Control. Conference. New York, New York, June 7-9, 1990
…author described a third phase of disease, from asbestos already in place. Of 17,800 insulation union members in the United States and Canada, 4,951 died in 1967-1986. On best evidence there were 1…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Exposure of sheet-metal workers to asbestos during the construction and renovation of commercial buildings in New York City. A case study in social medicine
…buildings. In 1982 the Occupational Health Program of Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine initiated a multidimensional asbestos evaluation and intervention program for the sheet-metal industry and union in New York…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Swedish approaches to industry-wide studies: the construction industry
…health program. The author described following three groups through national death and cancer registries: workers identified in the 1960 and 1970 censuses; about 30,000 painters' union members, 20,000 plumbers and 1,500 insulation workers;…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos exposure, cigarette smoking and death rates
…effects of cigarette smoking and occupational asbestos exposure on death rates. Members of the insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada answered smoking questionnaires in 1966, and 17,800 men alive on January 1…
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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 · 1988
The role of intervention studies in ascertaining the contribution of dietary factors in lung cancer. The Seattle chemoprevention trial of retinoids in asbestos-exposed workers
…at Bremerton, medical specialists, lawyers and union screening programs. The planned double-blind randomized trial required about 2500 subjects (1250 per arm) receiving 25,000 units of retinol plus 15 mg of beta-carotene daily, or…