Abstracts from the Literature, Litigation Watch-Welding Rods, September 2004

ARTICLE: A Cohort Study of Mortality Among Ontario Pipe Trades Workers

AUTHORS: M.M. Finkelstein, D.K. Verma

JOURNAL: Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2004 Sept.61(9):736-42.

SUMMARY: In order to study the mortality in a cohort of members of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the U.S. and Canada, the researchers of the study examined a cohort of more than 25,000 workers who entered the trade after 1949. In doing so, the authors found that the mortality pattern was consistent with the …