3 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1982
H. Seidman, I. J. Selikoff and E. C. Hammond, Mortality of Brain Tumors Among Asbestos Insulation Workers in the United States and Canada (1982)
Journal article reporting deaths from brain tumors among a cohort of 17,800 asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada followed from 1967 to 1979. It reports 24 brain tumor deaths by best evidence, compared with expected numbers,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1979
E. C. Hammond, I. J. Selikoff and H. Seidman, 'Asbestos Exposure, Cigarette Smoking and Death Rates,' Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1979)
Published journal article reporting a mortality study of 17,800 asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada followed from 1967 through 1976. It compares their death rates by cause and smoking history with a control group from an…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1969
Selikoff, Pundsack and Hammond, "Fibrous Dust Respirator Protection: Designing for Workman Acceptance and Effectiveness" (1969)
…against chrysotile, but noted that amosite and crocidolite had not been tested. In two-day field trials with union members and an insulation contractor, men wearing a J-M prototype with an exhalation valve, the same…