Occupational cancer in metalworking and transportation equipment industries.
Hazardous chemical exposures may be a more important public health problem in chemical-using industries, such as the metalworking and transportation equipment industries, than in chemical manufacturing plants. Recent studies have identified excess mortality from cancer among groups of workers in model and patternmaking, plating and die-cast, foundry, machining, electronics operations and vehicle assembly plants. The chemical agents or levels of exposure associated with these findings have not previously been thought to pose a cancer risk. Therefore, estimates of the fraction of cancers associated with workplace exposure may understate the importance of exposure in this setting.
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United Auto Workers (UAW) Health and Safety Department, Detroit, Michigan 48214.
Silverstein
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Park
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Maizlish
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D008297:Male; D008670:Metals / Q000009:adverse effects*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced*; D014186:Transportation
D008670:Metals