Mortality among a Cohort of US Man- Made Mineral Fiber Workers: 1985 Follow- Up

This 1983 to 1985 update of an earlier study examined the mortality experience of 16,661 man-made mineral fiber workers employed 1 year or more (6 months for two plants) during 1945 to 1963 (1940 to 1963 for one plant) at one or more of 17 US manufacturing plants. Using local death rates to estimate expected deaths there was a small statistically significant (P less than .05) excess in all malignant neoplasms (standardized mortality ratio [SMR]...