4 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Worker-sponsored survey for asbestosis: detection of occupational lung disease without a control group
…a cross-sectional survey, requested by a local union, of 57 white male workers at a small northeastern Massachusetts plant making asbestos wall board. The group was 52 of 56 active union members, three retirees and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1967
Mortality experience in a group of asbestos workers
This study looked at deaths among 152 asbestos insulators in New York state who had at least 15 years of exposure to asbestos dust. The authors used union records, death certificates, physicians' and hospital records, and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1970
A labor-management occupational health service in a construction industry
…13 western US states, run jointly by their union and contractors. It was a program description rather than a new study. The region had about 2,200 insulating workers in 11 local unions. Citing their own…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1966
Occupational hazards of pipe insulators
…glass, asbestos-containing, plastic, adhesive and other insulating materials. The authors also analyzed adhesive solvents by gas chromatography and followed the 47 men listed as union members on Jan 1, 1939. By Jan 1, 1964, 33…