Mortality and cancer morbidity among workers in the rubber tire industry

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• Personal Author:
  Delzell E ; Lewis J ; Louik C ; Monson RR
• Description:
  This retrospective followup study evaluated mortality and cancer incidence among employees of a small rubber tire manufacturing facility (SIC-3011) in southwestern Connecticut. The facility started operating in 1922, and the single major product was automobile tires. Company records of deaths among active and retired workers and a Social Security Administration search for death claims identified 249 deaths during the followup period. Death certificates were obtained for 208 of these individuals. There were 26,839 person years of followup accumulated by the 1,792 production workers. The standardized mortality ratio for all causes was 89, indicating an 11 percent deficit in overall mortality for the production workers compared to white males in the United States. There were large deficits in deaths from external causes and vascular lesions of the central nervous system. There were excesses in both deaths and incident cases for four sites of cancer: buccal cavity and pharynx, large intestine, pancreas, and kidney. Excess cancer deaths were also recorded for digestive organs and peritoneum and in incident cases of cancer of the bronchus and lung. With the exception of the kidney cancer cases, these excesses occurred only among men who had worked at the facility for at least 10 years. These findings were based on small numbers and therefore do not necessarily indicate causal associations between cancer excesses and employment in the rubber tire industry. However, because the workers studied comprised a relatively young population that may not have experienced the full impact of carcinogenic occupational exposures, the authors recommend further followup. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Mortality Neoplasms Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Rubber Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Multiphasic Health Testing Cancer Rates Gastrointestinal Morbidity Among Rubber Workers Industrial Hygiene Assessment Intestinal Cancer Kidney Disorders Lemen Mortality Surveys Occupational Health Hazard Detection Respiratory Morbidity Among Rubber Workers Risk Factors Rubber Manufacturing Industry Rubber Workers

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  209-216
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00193145
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 1981 Mar; 2(3):209-216
• Contact Point Address:
  Richard R. Monson MD, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3011 - Tires and inner tubes - (SIC)
• Start Date:
  19770930
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  19940630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8f25ae0dcd6880c6500407e7e379d0da13f26a5674b5f56be045fb23c627e96a6e2900eec4f21b638f04226bb5697d89258dac81b65c8bb4a68ebc01e0353a6b
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/205143/cdc_205143_DS1.pdf
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