Employment characteristics and cause-specific mortality at automotive electronics manufacturing plants in Huntsville, Alabama.
Adult
Aged
Alabama
Asbestos
Automobiles
Cardiovascular Diseases
/ mortality
Cause of Death
Digestive System Diseases
/ mortality
Employment
/ statistics & numerical data
Female
Glass
Humans
Job Description
Lead
Male
Manufacturing Industry
Manufacturing and Industrial Facilities
Middle Aged
Neoplasms
/ mortality
Occupational Exposure
/ statistics & numerical data
Personnel Management
Solvents
Time Factors
Trichloroethanes
Trichloroethylene
1,1,1-trichloroethane
autoworker
electronics manufacturing
lead solder
mortality
occupational cohort
trichloroethylene
Journal
American journal of industrial medicine
ISSN: 1097-0274
Titre abrégé: Am J Ind Med
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8101110
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2019
04 2019
Historique:
received:
23
06
2018
revised:
25
01
2019
accepted:
01
02
2019
pubmed:
23
2
2019
medline:
16
7
2020
entrez:
22
2
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This study was carried out in response to worker concerns over their exposure to lead solder and chlorinated solvents at automotive electronics manufacturing plants in Huntsville, Alabama. A study of 4396 United Autoworkers members ever-employed at the plants between 1972 and 1993 was conducted with mortality follow-up through 2016. Poisson regression was used to estimate mortality rate ratios (RR) according to employment characteristics, including calendar period of employment. Pre-1977 hires exhibited elevated adjusted rates of all-cause (RR, 1.29; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.09-1.52), cardiovascular (RR, 1.38; 95% CI, 1.03-1.86), and digestive system (RR, 2.31; 95% CI, 1.04-5.10) disease mortality relative to the most recent hire group (1984-1993). Never- versus ever-employment in a skilled trade job was associated with elevated adjusted rates of all-cause, all-cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality. Nervous system disorder mortality was greatest among 1977-1983 hires. Elevated mortality among pre-1977 hires is consistent with worker concerns over greater exposure to hazards at the original plant building.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
This study was carried out in response to worker concerns over their exposure to lead solder and chlorinated solvents at automotive electronics manufacturing plants in Huntsville, Alabama.
METHODS
A study of 4396 United Autoworkers members ever-employed at the plants between 1972 and 1993 was conducted with mortality follow-up through 2016. Poisson regression was used to estimate mortality rate ratios (RR) according to employment characteristics, including calendar period of employment.
RESULTS
Pre-1977 hires exhibited elevated adjusted rates of all-cause (RR, 1.29; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.09-1.52), cardiovascular (RR, 1.38; 95% CI, 1.03-1.86), and digestive system (RR, 2.31; 95% CI, 1.04-5.10) disease mortality relative to the most recent hire group (1984-1993). Never- versus ever-employment in a skilled trade job was associated with elevated adjusted rates of all-cause, all-cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality. Nervous system disorder mortality was greatest among 1977-1983 hires.
CONCLUSIONS
Elevated mortality among pre-1977 hires is consistent with worker concerns over greater exposure to hazards at the original plant building.
Substances chimiques
Solvents
0
Trichloroethanes
0
fiberglass
0
1,1,1-trichloroethane
113C650IR1
Asbestos
1332-21-4
Trichloroethylene
290YE8AR51
Lead
2P299V784P
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
296-308Subventions
Organisme : North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Education Research Center
ID : 5-T42-OH008673-11
Pays : International
Informations de copyright
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