Mortality among long-term employees of an Ontario asbestos-cement factory.
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Mortality among long-term employees of an Ontario asbestos-cement factory.
Mortality was studied among a group of 328 employees of an Ontario asbestos-cement factory who had been hired before 1960 and who had been employed for a minimum of nine years. The group of 87 men who had worked in the rock wool/fibre glass operations, or who had been otherwise minimally exposed to asbestos, had mortality rates similar to those of the general Ontario population, while the group...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1983
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.40.2.138