High impact information on Accidents, Occupational

• In 1973 and 1974, several thousand Michigan dairy farms were contaminated by polybrominated biphenyls (P.B.B.) as the result of an industrial accident [1].
• In 1976, near Seveso, Italy, an industrial accident caused the release of large quantities of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) into the atmosphere, resulting in the highest levels of the toxicant ever recorded in humans [2].
• There have been many fatal occupational accidents of skin exposure to monochloroacetic acid (MCA) [3].
• The dismissed resident tested the policies through the Courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts all the way to the United States Supreme Court, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents [4].
• A major industrial accident involving the release of hydrogen fluoride has the potential to cause serious injury and possibly death in the surrounding human population [5].

Biological context of Accidents, Occupational

• However, following chronic and excessive industrial accidents or intentional abuse, toluene exposure several orders of magnitude greater exists, and at these levels in utero exposures in both animals and humans have been shown to produce significant delays in fetal growth [6].
• This case, identified by the USTUR as Case 0212, had two documented intakes of plutonium and americium from occupational accidents while employed at Hanford but no known occupational exposure to thorium [7].

Associations of Accidents, Occupational with chemical compounds

• A worker was buried under arsenic trioxide in an industrial accident [8].
• The specificity of the treatment is demonstrated in an industrial accident in which four men were simultaneously exposed to nickel carbonyl vapors [9].
• Determination of nitrate content in whey and milk powders at a dairy after an occupational accident with nitric acid [10].
• Non-significance of plasma total cholesterol in the occurrence of occupational accidents [11].
• The data on serious occupational accidents in three years from the Aegean Region of Turkey were analyzed in order to define the working life situation [12].

Gene context of Accidents, Occupational

• The adoption of the UN-ECE Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters (Kiev Protocol) in May 2003 was the result of a three-year negotiation process undertaken in the aftermath of the Baia Mare accident in Romania [13].
• In testing for pesticides, only DDT and dieldrin are found with any frequency and their levels are decreasing; violative residues of any chlorinated hydrocarbon are generally a result of an industrial accident rather than agricultural usage [14].

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