197 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 5 of 10
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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 · 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 · 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 · 1993
Asbestos-related radiographic abnormalities in elevator construction workers
…screening held in November 1988. The screening covered members of the Philadelphia Local of the International Union of Elevator Constructors who had belonged to the union for at least 20 years. Ninety-one men took part…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Asbestos-related diseases and asbestos types used in the former GDR
…insulation and fire prevention material, etc. in the large-scale chemical industry. Chrysotile was predominantly imported from the former Soviet Union, partly from Canada. Very small amounts of amphiboles came from Mozambique, but they were not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Parenchymal and pleural fibrosis in construction workers
…construction workers near Tampere, Finland. Of 993 eligible union members (members since at least 1967), 437 (44%) answered a questionnaire on asbestos and quartz dust exposure and had a chest X-ray. Eighty-one percent reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Hazards of lung biopsy in asbestos workers
…asbestos insulation workers had lung biopsies and what happened afterwards. It drew on a union cohort of 17 800 insulation workers in the United States and Canada. Of 2907 living members who had reached 30 years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Participatory mapping of occupational hazards and disease among asbestos-exposed workers from a foundry and insulation complex in Canada
…complex in Sarnia, Ontario. The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers union did it to support compensation claims. Former workers drew 'hazard maps' of their workplaces from memory. Foundry workers described…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestosis: interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and pleural fibrosis in a cohort of asbestos insulation workers: influence of cigarette smoking
…first medical examination of 1,117 New York-New Jersey asbestos insulation workers, who were 89.4% of the 1,249 eligible union members. The films were reread using the 1971 International Labour Office classification without…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: inaccuracies in occupational categories
…two asbestos workers' cohorts. One (insulation workers) had current or recent employment and a strong, continuing union support system which gave them much information about the effects of asbestos exposure. The second cohort, asbestos factory workers…
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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 · 1993
Reginald Tage: a UK asbestos prophet--a postscript
…1992) of Reginald Tage, a former medical student who investigated asbestos disease at the Cape Asbestos factory at Barking and reported his surveys to the Trades Union Congress in January 1932. The author reproduced a factory…
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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 · Illinois Appellate Court · July 24, 1979
Nolan v. Johns-Manville Asbestos & Magnesia Materials Co. (1979)
…rays in 1957, a 1965 hospital stay where he was told he had pulmonary fibrosis, union articles from 1968, and a 1973 doctor's history saying he was told of asbestosis in 1957. Nolan said no…
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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 · Tennessee Supreme Court · March 1, 2001
Mackie v. Young Sales Corp. (2001)
…the maximum weekly rate, against Young Sales Corporation. An employee's voluntary retirement does not preclude workers' compensation benefits for an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of employment, and benefits may be…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · July 30, 2018
Bennett v. the Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. (2018)
…to add asbestosis. The District Hearing Officer, the Staff Hearing Officer and the Industrial Commission all denied the request. He appealed to the Union County Common Pleas Court, which held a bench trial. His pulmonologist, Dr…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
The Tale of Asbestos in Sweden 1972-1986-The Pathway to a Near-Total Ban
…extensive charting of asbestos sources on a tripartite basis, involving government agencies, and employer and trade-union organizations. Restrictive asbestos management practices were enforced from July 1982. The year 1985 saw the Government Asbestos Commission review…
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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…