Industrial Lung Diseases of Iron and Steel Foundry Workers
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Respiratory abnormalities among workers in an iron and steel foundry.
A study of the health of 78 workers in an iron and steel foundry in Vancouver, British Columbia, was carried out and the results compared with those found in 372 railway repair yard workers who were not significantly exposed to air contaminants at work. The foundry workers were exposed to PepSet, which consists of diphenyl methane diisocyanate (MDI) and phenol formaldehyde and their decompositi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1951
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.8.1.29