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Mortality among employees of an ontario factory manufacturing insulation materials from amosite asbestos
Author(s) -
Finkelstein Murray M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.4700150411
Subject(s) - asbestosis , medicine , asbestos , mesothelioma , peritoneal mesothelioma , environmental health , lung cancer , occupational exposure , occupational disease , lung disease , epidemiology , pathology , lung , materials science , metallurgy
The mortality of workers from an Ontario factory manufacturing amosite asbestos insulation materials under poorly controlled environmental conditions is reported here. Seven (58%) of 12 deaths among exposed workers 10 or more years after first exposure were due to malignancies; four (25%) were from lung cancer, and there were two deaths from peritoneal mesothelioma. Those dying from mesothelioma were 47 and 49 years of age. Three (25%) of 12 deaths were from respiratory disease, two were attributed to asbestosis (in men 42 and 53 years of ages), and one to pneumonia in a 54‐year‐old male.