116 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 5 of 6
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 25, 2019
Gallagher v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…Union 608 One World Trade Center New York 1961-1992; carpenter, member of New York City Carpenter's Union 608 Pan Am Building New York 1961-1992; carpenter, member of New York City Carpenter's Union…
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Court case · North Carolina Court of Appeals · May 1, 2018
Penegar v. United Parcel Service (2018)
…containing brakes and compressed air to blow off dust. Later he held other jobs: driving a van for Union County and working for a church and a school system. He had also served in the Navy…
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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 · 2010
Exporting death made in Quebec
…public health tragedy for Canada and the rest of the world. The author stated that over 40 countries, including the European Union, had banned chrysotile. The author also stated that Quebec's chrysotile went mostly to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Use of asbestos, health risks and induced occupational diseases in the former East Germany
…and fire prevention material, etc. in the large-scale chemical industry. The asbestos was imported from the former Soviet Union, smaller amounts came from Canada. In the German Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt, approximately 600 asbestoses…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Relative risk of mesothelioma among railroad machinists exposed to chrysotile
…1945, the author followed the 181 machinists hired from 1920 to 1929 through 1986. Deaths were identified from union death claim records. The author concluded from historical sources that the boiler lagging was almost exclusively, if…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Re: Paradis G. Ban all production and export of chrysotile asbestos [Editor's Page]. Can J Public Health 2010;101(5):352
…Canadian Public Health Association, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Medical Association for aligning with United Nations agencies and the European Union in calling for the elimination of asbestos use and export. The author argued…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Nitric oxide (NO) synthase activity in the lung and NO synthesis in alveolar macrophages of rats increased on exposure to asbestos
We examined whether the lung of rats induced nitric oxide synthase (NOS) on instillation of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) asbestos into the trachea, and whether alveolar macrophages (M phi s) of rats increased synthesis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Asbestos poisons World Trade Organization atmosphere
…September 2000, a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel published its findings in the dispute between Canada and the European Union/France over France's ban on the import and use of chrysotile (white asbestos). The panel…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 13, 2009
Silvestro v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. (2009)
…and Settlement Credits; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: his home and side construction jobs; engine rooms on ships union cement mason on residential and commercial construction projects 1946-1966; side construction jobs hanging drywall; home remodeling…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · September 30, 2011
Zickuhr v. Ericsson, Inc. (2011)
…U.S. Steel South Works plant; U.S. Steel boom truck driver and maintenance worker for the electric shop U.S. Steel South Works plant 1955-1985; union electrician U.S. Steel 1970 to plant closing
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Comparative hazards of chrysotile asbestos and its substitutes: A European perspective
…asbestos cement and friction linings in vehicle brakes and clutches. A ban on chrysotile throughout the European Union for these remaining applications is currently under consideration, but this requires confidence in the safety of substitute materials…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Malignant transformation of immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells by asbestos fibers
…these BEP2D cells after a single, 7-day treatment with a 20-microgram/ml (4 micrograms per cm2 area) dose of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) Rhodesian chrysotile fibers. Asbestos treatment resulted in a surviving…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Soil fungi reduce the iron content and the DNA damaging effects of asbestos fibers
…the surface reactivity of asbestos fibers. One sample of chrysotile from the Western Alps and a sample of UICC (Union Internationale Contre le Cancer) crocidolite were incubated with or without fungi. All fungi extracted iron from…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · May 2, 2016 · in the opinion
Whelan v. Armstrong Int'l (2016)
…warn. III. We review orders granting summary judgment de novo, applying the same standard as the trial court. Templo Fuente De Vida Corp. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, 224 N.J. 189…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 21, 2016 · in the opinion
Baeza v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2016)
…warnings, safety requirements, and union strike activities—were relevant to the jury's evaluation of plaintiffs' design defect claim. The court overruled Farrise's objection. The court stated that the jury had been properly instructed, further…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · September 26, 2012
Georgia-Pacific v. Farrar (2012)
…grandparents' home), Washington; Forrestal Building, Washington high school student washing family laundry Forrestal Building (via grandfather's work clothes, washed at grandparents' home) Washington 1968-1969; union insulator (grandfather, Mr. Hentgen) Forrestal Building Washington 1968-1969
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · September 25, 2019 · in the opinion
Lattanzio v. Rockwell Automation (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…as a career electrician, from approximately 1968 through 2010. Mr. Lattanzio was a member of IBEW, Local Union 3, from 1972 to 2010 (Opp. Exhs. 2 and 3). Mr. Lattanzio was deposed over the course of…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · July 26, 2007 · in the opinion
Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Stephens (2007)
…the authors did not measure exposure levels—rather, they undertook a mortality analysis involving 12,873 deceased members of the Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association, a union composed of plasterers, cement masons, and shophands…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia · May 14, 2013 · in the opinion
Wannall v. Honeywell International, Inc. (2013)
…v. Guest Servs., Inc., 630 F.3d 217, 227 (D.C. Cir. 2011) (quoting Greene v. Union Mut. Life Ins. Co. of Am., 764 F.2d 19, 22-23 (1st Cir. 1985)). To determine whether "justice…