10 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 · Union Carbide documents · 1976
I. J. Selikoff, 'Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma During Prospective Surveillance of 1249 Asbestos Insulation Workers, 1963-1974' (1976)
Reprint of a journal article reporting a 1963-1974 prospective medical surveillance of 1,249 New York-New Jersey asbestos insulation workers. It presents tables of expected and observed deaths from lung cancer, mesothelioma, asbestosis and other…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1978
Naseem, Tishler, Anderson and Selikoff, 'Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylase in Asbestos Workers,' American Review of Respiratory Disease (1978)
Journal article reporting a study of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity and inducibility in lymphoblasts from 47 asbestos workers and 31 control subjects. The authors reported greater mean AHH inducibility in the exposed group and discussed…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1976
I. J. Selikoff, Lung Cancer and Mesothelioma During Prospective Surveillance of 1249 Asbestos Insulation Workers, 1963-1974 (1976)
Journal article by Irving J. Selikoff reporting mortality and clinical surveillance findings for New York-area asbestos insulation workers followed from 1963 to 1974. It reports deaths from lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis, and describes the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 4, 1972
Fred L. Pundsack to Dr. Irving J. Selikoff on Estimating Past Dust Levels at the Manville Plant (1972)
What it shows The estimates were for Selikoff's study of the Manville plant, which the local union had asked him to make (Selikoff's request to J. B. Jobe, Jobe's agreement). Blind copies went…
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Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 8, 1968
Irving J. Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg, Asbestos Exposure, Smoking, and Neoplasia (1968)
…E. Cuyler Hammond of the American Cancer Society, on 370 members of the insulators' union in New York and Newark followed from 1963 to April 1967. Of 283 men with a history of regular cigarette smoking…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 28, 1971
Dr. Irving J. Selikoff to J. B. Jobe Asking for Data on Manville Plant Workers (1971)
…was reflected by inadequate control measures, will plague us for some years." He offers assurances: "It is not our intention that your cooperation hurt you," the data would be for research only, individuals' information would stay…
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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…
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Government report · 1968
Occupational Safety and Health: Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, on H.R. 14816 (1968)
…testimony and prepared statement of Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine on six years of research among asbestos insulation workers: excess deaths among 632 union members, lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis…