61 results for “General Electric”, page 3 of 4
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
The Wittenoom legacy
…products in Western Australia. As a result, the state has recorded a higher malignant-mesothelioma mortality rate than in any other Australian state and in any defined general population in the world. Thus, the legacy of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
In vitro toxicity of fibrous glaucophane
…blueschist rocks of California (USA) currently mined for construction purposes. Dust generated by the excavation activities might potentially expose workers and the general public. The aim of this study was to determine whether fibrous glaucophane induces…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Electron microscopy applied to studies of the biological significance of defects in crocidolite asbestos
…planar faults, and pores. Fibres sectioned in lung tissue and fibres taken from in vitro exposure to blood serum show evidence of erosion by two mechanisms--preferential attack at (100) planar defects and general surface dissolution.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Some biological properties of respirable iron ore dust
…found in age-matched control animals. While there was a significant increase of the incidence of tumors in general in WAG inbred rats up to 2 years following dust exposure, this did not persist into old…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Fiber counting and analysis in the diagnosis of asbestos-related disease
…large numbers. Numbers of asbestos bodies markedly underestimate total numbers of fibers present in lung. In patients from the general population, the mean number of asbestos fibers is about 1 X 10(6)/g dry lung;…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Cancer mortality and exposure to crocidolite
…a further 800 f/ml shorter than 5 µm. Samples from the general area outside the plant showed up to 2 f/ml longer than 5 µm. Rogers noted that de Klerk et al had applied…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
The quantitative risks of mesothelioma and lung cancer in relation to asbestos exposure: the Wittenoom data
…and mill. It covered 12 shifts and collected 38 static samples, and it was reported only in general terms in 1968. Others had derived median estimates of 50 fibres/ml for ever mill workers, 12 fibres…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · September 9, 2008 · in the opinion
Taylor v. Csr Limited (2008)
…of Baltimore for sugar deliveries from which CSR derived substantial revenue. Taylor next contends that she presented evidence satisfying the due process requirements for Maryland's exercise of both specific and general personal jurisdiction over CSR…
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Court case · Kentucky Court of Appeals · February 14, 2014 · in the opinion
McGuire v. Lorillard Tobacco Company (2014)
…been a strictly personal choice, yet it was a thing of comfort and convenience to himself while he was serving as maintenance man and general custodian and while he was on call at all hours. Therefore…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Silicosis among gemstone workers in South Africa: tiger's-eye pneumoconiosis
…to be confined to stone sculptors. Tried and proven techniques of general and local exhaust ventilation combined with water or oil to control dust at source were capable of effectively reducing dust emission to acceptable levels.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Effects of asbestos on the random migration of rabbit alveolar macrophages
…indicates that fibers can be toxic for AM through extracellular membrane contact. In general the results from the viability studies paralleled the migration inhibition observations. None of the asbestos preparations induced a burst in the hexose…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Metaphase and anaphase analysis of V79 cells exposed to erionite, UICC chrysotile and UICC crocidolite
…for chrysotile and crocidolite than erionite. These results correlate with the higher tumorigenic potency of erionite. In general, fewer cells treated with erionite entered anaphase than those treated with the other two minerals. As a result…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 21, 2014 · in the opinion
Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2014)
…which may be as little as three months." Though acknowledging a "general inference that Crocidolite \[asbestos\] is more liable to produce mesothelioma," the report cautioned that "\[e\]xoneration of \[Union Carbide's\] Chrysotile \[asbestos\] has not…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · December 12, 2018 · in the opinion
Prokocimer v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…continuing general belief that exposure to asbestos below the TLV of the time period of 5 million particles per cubit foot ("mppcf") of air did not represent a hazard to workers. There was no general recognition…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · February 20, 1998 · in the opinion
Ruckstuhl v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
…The "minimum contacts" prong of the test can be broken down into two types of personal jurisdiction, specific and general. A state exercises "specific jurisdiction" over a non-resident defendant when the lawsuit arises from or…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · May 11, 2018 · in the opinion
Mack Trucks, Inc. v. Coates (2018)
…PROCEEDINGS Until it closed in 1989, Marcantoni was a Baltimore-based general construction contracting company that specialized in highway and utility work for local governments in the greater Baltimore area. Its headquarters was located on Broening…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · December 19, 2019 · in the opinion
Union Carbide Corporation v. Torres (2019)
…439 S.W.3d 332, 352 (Tex. 2014). Appellants do not dispute general causation. That is, they do not dispute that asbestos is capable of causing mesothelioma. However, each appellant argues that Oscar failed to establish…
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Court case · Louisiana Supreme Court · April 13, 1999 · in the opinion
Ruckstuhl v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
…regard to either theory. The facts presented in this case show that H & V and Lorillard had a much closer relationship than that of a general component part manufacturer supplying parts to an end product manufacturer…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 19, 2020 · in the opinion
Mata v. Liberty Utilities (park Water) Corp. (2020)
…its employees in the construction and service departments working with asbestos, it is not reasonable to infer from the company's general safety consciousness alone, that it is highly probable that the company was aware of…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · September 19, 1994 · in the opinion
Lesnick v. Hollingsworth & Vose Co. (1994)
…it "bound itself to work in virtual partnership with Lorillard to develop a filter for general distribution through integration into Lorillard's cigarettes." Lesnick contended that Hollingsworth & Vose should be imputed with Lorillard's clearly adequate…