120 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 4 of 6
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Mortality among shipbreaking workers in Taiwan--a retrospective cohort study from 1985 to 2008
…are lacking. This study examined mortality among shipbreaking workers over a 24-year follow-up period. A total of 4,962 shipbreaking workers were recruited from the database of the Kaohsiung Shipbreaking Workers Union. The data…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Single-center study to determine the safety and efficacy of CT-707 in Chinese patients with advanced anaplastic lymphoma kinase-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer
This single-center, open-label phase I trial was run at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, China. It tested CT-707, an experimental oral ALK-targeting drug, in adults with advanced ALK-rearranged cancers. Thirteen patients…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · February 14, 2013
Anderson v. the Proctor & Gamble Paper Products Company (2013)
…Owner Liability; Wrongful Death and Survival Worksites: Charmin Paper Mill (Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co.); Charmin Paper Mill, Green Bay union electrician (journeyman electrician and foreman for electrical contractors) Charmin Paper Mill Green Bay 1955-1979
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · February 15, 2013
Anderson v. Proctor & Gamble Paper Products Co. (2013)
…Products Co.), Green Bay union electrician, journeyman electrician and foreman Charmin Paper Mill (Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co.) Green Bay 1955-1979; union electrician Charmin Paper Mill (Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co.) Green Bay 1955-1979
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Australia's Ongoing Legacy of Asbestos: Significant Challenges Remain Even after the Complete Banning of Asbestos Almost Fifteen Years Ago
…The sustained efforts of trade unions and non-governmental organisations were essential in forcing the Australian government to finally implement the 2003 asbestos ban. Trade unions and non-government organisations continue to play a key role…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
CT scan screening for lung cancer: risk factors for nodules and malignancy in a high-risk urban cohort
…between 2001 and 2010, and some were followed for up to 10 years. Some were referred by a utility workers' union. The authors considered 171 participants (14.5%) to have confirmed asbestos exposure, based on both…
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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 · 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 · 1984
Histologic type of lung cancer and asbestos exposure
…asbestos exposure. The authors reviewed 855 lung cancer cases in total (747 men and 108 women), from three New Jersey hospitals and from a study of insulation workers union members, which supplied 67 cases. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: proportional mortality update
…workers. They examined death certificates for 331 white male members of Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association whose deaths were reported to the union benefit fund between January 1983 and October 1986. Deaths…
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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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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · June 3, 2010
Dean v. Bur. OF Workers'comp. (2010)
…for 45 years. Later it describes her claim as alleging mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure. He worked for many employers through his union hall, including Conesville Coal Preparation Company and American Electric Power. The Bureau and…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991
Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)
…the limitations defense, or the fault percentages. It held that a union poster was wrongly admitted but harmless. It found the evidence insufficient for Pool's $100,000 future medical award, so he must remit it…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 3, 2019
Surace v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…building, White Plains foreman Elmsford Lumber 1957-1967; foreman at a lumber yard R. W. Henry Pleasantville 1968-1976; union carpenter Galleria Mall, Gateway highrise building, Westchester Mall, IBM buildings, Money building White Plains 1977-1995
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Occupational burden of asbestos-related cancer in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
…Health Organization. Estimates of how many workers in each economic sector were exposed to asbestos were not available for the countries studied, so the authors used European Union figures from 1990 to 1993. For mesothelioma, the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos: historical perspective
…study by Irving Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg of 632 men from two asbestos insulator union locals. Hammond suggested confining analysis to men with at least 20 years' work experience. That study recorded 255…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Asbestos and cancer: An overview of current trends in Europe
…between 0. 004 kg in northern Europe and 2.4 kg in the former Soviet Union. Population surveys from northern Europe indicate that 15 to 30% of the male (and a few percent of the female…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · January 29, 1998
Adams v. Owens-Illinois (1998)
…verdicts, jury instructions about Bethlehem Steel, Hopeman and Foster Wheeler, and evidence that unions knew of asbestos hazards. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed. It found no abuse of discretion or prejudice in jury selection, held…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
History of asbestos related disease
…workers, other users of asbestos products and people living near factories, and that stricter British and US rules and a European Union ban on chrysotile followed. It reported that whether SV40 virus causes mesothelioma remained unclear…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Current opinions on the asbestos cancer problem
…expressed at the 1969 Pneumoconiosis Conference in Johannesburg. The author described international studies sponsored by the International Union Against Cancer and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. A large survey of Quebec chrysotile miners showed…