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Methemoglobinemia: an industrial outbreak among rubber molding workers.

Operators of steam presses to add adhesive in rubber strips for automobile bumper

Exposure (through manual handling) to an adhesive containing dinitrobenzene

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Conventional products in task performance

Contaminated ancillary products

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Cold blast furnace syndrome: a new source of toxic inhalation by nitrogen oxides

Recovery process of a “cold blast furnace”

Exposure to nitrogen oxides at high pressure and temperature

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Maintenance tasks

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Task siting place

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Epidemiologic investigation of respiratory morbidity at a nylon flock plant

Flocking tasks and cleaning residual flock

Nylon fibers and dust

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Conventional products in task performance

Poor working conditions

Task siting place

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An epidemic of silicosis among former denim sandblasters

Denim sandblasting tasks

Silica

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Conventional products in task performance

Poor working conditions

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Group A streptococcal skin infection outbreak in an abattoir: lessons for prevention

Gutting (evisceration) tasks

Lamb carcasses contaminated by streptococcus Group A

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Conventional products in task performance

Poor working conditions

Task siting place