197 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 6 of 10
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Global Asbestos Disaster
…of which work-related exposures are responsible for 233,000 deaths (222,322⁻242,802). In the European Union, United States of America and in other high income economies (World Health Organization regional classification) the direct costs…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
A camel through the eye of a needle: expertise and the late recognition of asbestos-related diseases
…as finite and controllable. Second, the alternative approach to asbestos hazard management proposed by the Spanish trade union Comisiones Obreras in the early 1980s, inspired by the so-called Italian workers' model, prioritized locally produced knowledge…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Too little, too late? The home office and the asbestos industry regulations, 1931
…1920s, after which the Inspectorate acted speedily. Employers and organized labour were each able to change the rules only at the margins. Union leaders and Thomas Legge, the TUC's medical adviser, accepted the outcome. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Science is not sufficient: Irving J. Selikoff and the asbestos tragedy
…had not used, and on interviews with colleagues. They reported that Selikoff personally received no funds to direct a union-supported program, that he favored controlling asbestos hazards rather than campaigning for a ban, and that…
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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 · 2000
The prevalence of pleural plaques and/or pulmonary changes among construction workers in Okayama, Japan
…this as within the Japanese legal standard but far above a WHO standard. Second, specialists read chest x-rays of 2,951 male union construction workers in Okayama, Japan, and workers with findings had chest CT…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestosis in the Republic of Croatia
…of asbestos. Croatia as a transitional country is subject to socioeconomic pressures. Future approaches to the asbestos issue will depend on revised regulations, which are expected to conform to recommendations of the European Union by 2005.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Pulmonary fibrosis in workers exposed to non-asbestiform tremolite asbestos minerals
…Taiwan, compared those who processed nephrite (jade), described by the authors as non-asbestiform tremolite, with other stone workers. Of 1902 stone union members invited, 344 enrolled. After exclusions, 305 workers were analyzed, 53 of whom…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos in Italy
Asbestos-related diseases remain common in Italy due to past exposures that were tolerated by a government distracted and manipulated by multinational asbestos corporations. The incidence of asbestos-related cancers has taken on almost epidemic proportions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Pleural determinants of restrictive lung function and respiratory symptoms in an asbestos-exposed population
…to breathing symptoms. The authors analyzed 1,211 sheet metal workers in the midwest United States who had at least 25 years in the trade and took part in a 1986 union medical evaluation. Pleural abnormalities…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Failure to prove asbestos exposure produces obstructive lung disease
…cigarette smoking, lung function and chest radiograph abnormalities in 3,383 patients referred mainly by plaintiff attorneys and trade union members. He noted that the study had reported clinically significant airflow obstruction as well as restrictive…
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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 · 2017
Parenchymal asbestosis due to primary asbestos exposure among ship-breaking workers: report of the first cases from Bangladesh
…among current workers in Bangladesh. They said their sample was small, biased and selected by the union. They also said exposure could not be measured and that workers moved between jobs, so different tasks could not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos diseases and compensation
…was reasonably secure and to encourage eligible patients to claim benefit. Patients considering legal action should be referred to a trade union or solicitor rather than told to sue. Patients with pleural plaques should be reassured…
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · June 1, 2009 · in the opinion
CSX Transp., Inc. v. Hensley (2009)
Union Pacific R. Co., 210 S.W.3d 220 (2006), cert. denied, 552 U.S. 812, 128 S.Ct. 59, 169 L.Ed.2d 15 (2007) — have read footnote 19 as I do. These courts have…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Physical and microchemical alterations of chrysotile and amosite asbestos in the hamster lung
The physical and microchemical alterations of chrysotile and amosite asbestos (Union International Contre le Cancer standard samples) in the hamster lung and in vitro following acid treatments were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and x…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · December 30, 2004
Root v. Eastern Refractories Co., Inc. (2004)
…blankets at the site is enough to defeat summary judgment. Product Identification; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Syracuse University; Syracuse University, Syracuse journeyman insulator for the Asbestos Workers Union Syracuse University Syracuse 1962-1964; 1967-1968
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
The fallout from asbestos
…the UK and the USA. He summarised international action. The European Union had banned asbestos and started a programme to prevent exposure, the International Labour Organization had endorsed a ban in 2006, and at least 40…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Asbestosis in an asbestos composite mill at Mumbai: a prevalence study
…and medically certify them, whereupon they could avail of their basic rights to obtain compensation and proper treatment. The study was conducted by the Occupational Health and Safety Centre and the Workers' Union. Asbestosis was diagnosed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Asbestos and lung cancer: what we know
…increased risk of lung cancer death in those with both exposures. Later reports on 17,800 union insulators showed a greater than fourfold increased risk. These studies had been criticized for comparing insulators with the U…