5 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Person · People and organizations
Irving J. Selikoff
…s Environmental Sciences Laboratory, 1970–1982; in 1964 headed environmental health at Mount Sinai Hospital. Published studies of insulation workers' deaths and smoking, directed an insulator hygiene program, and wrote to Johns-Manville and Union Carbide.
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Company document · WARD Documents · May 19, 1971
G. P. Reimschussel, Disposable Dust Respirators, J-M Research Center Progress Report No. 2 (1971)
…placebos with no glass fiber, were field-tested at the Dresden Nuclear Power Plant construction site in Illinois with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Local 7 of the asbestos workers' union; the men found…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 21, 1969
T. J. Weeks, Throwaway Mask for Fibrous Dusts, J-M Research Center Progress Report No. 1 (1969)
…to job, so "these men generally wear no respirator and have little or no protection"; after talks with the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the insulators' union, the U.S. Bureau of Mines and Mount Sinai, J…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 28, 1971
Dr. Irving J. Selikoff to J. B. Jobe Asking for Data on Manville Plant Workers (1971)
…was reflected by inadequate control measures, will plague us for some years." He offers assurances: "It is not our intention that your cooperation hurt you," the data would be for research only, individuals' information would stay…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1969
Selikoff, Pundsack and Hammond, "Fibrous Dust Respirator Protection: Designing for Workman Acceptance and Effectiveness" (1969)
…against chrysotile, but noted that amosite and crocidolite had not been tested. In two-day field trials with union members and an insulation contractor, men wearing a J-M prototype with an exhalation valve, the same…