(1) The mortality of 3000 male factory workers, 1400 laggers, and 700 women factory workers in east London has been studied.
(2) Laggers were employed on contract in increasing numbers in later years.
(3) A sub-group of 39 men, who were working as asbestos laggers or sprayers before 1957, was identified.
(4) The prevalence of pleural fibrosis ranged from 28% in continuously exposed workers to 1.9% in those with least exposure.Most cases of pulmonary fibrosis occurred in laggers and sprayers who had been continuously exposed for between 15 and 20 years.
(5) Grassroots organisers for the GMB and Unite unions were inundated with calls from members who wanted to join the industrial action erupting at the Lindsey oil refinery near Grimsby, where hundreds of welders, engineers, pipe-fitters and laggers had launched the biggest protest yet at the employment of foreign workers on energy construction projects.
(6) The campaign group described P&G as both a “market leader and a lagger”, for failing to drive change in the industry.
(7) A follow-up study of 162 men already working as insulators (laggers) in 1940 has been extended from 1965 to 1975.
(8) Mesothelioma was found to cluster in laggers, electricians, and shipyard workers, and nasal carcinoma in woodworkers.
Logger
Definition:
(n.) One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) A fortnight ago the two countries signed a US$27 million deal to tackle deforestation on the island of Sumatra - a key problem in Indonesia where 80 per cent of emissions come from deforestation, both by legal and illegal loggers.
(2) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
(3) The Pain-Track system includes portable data loggers carried by the patients, a personal computer with a software package for storage and analysis of the data and a terminal unit to connect the loggers and computer.
(4) She is also adamant that this engagement has enabled a crackdown on the illegal loggers.
(5) There were signs in September 2012 that Seeds of the Forest was provoking fierce opposition from loggers and big landowners, particularly when it announced plans to incorporate, legally, a further 14,000 hectares (34,500 acres) of public forest.
(6) Spirometry, respiratory symptom questionnaires, and chest radiographs were obtained from 688 loggers in Oregon and Washington.
(7) The extension of the world heritage area was part of the forestry peace process in Tasmania, which pitted loggers against environmentalists over several decades.
(8) But reason will be no barrier to more of the sort of visionless and destructive dogma the Australian prime minister regaled the loggers with in Parliament House this week.
(9) Complaints of irritation in the eyes, nose and throat as well as dyspnea during work prompted this study to determine whether chain-saw exhaust produces acute exposure effects in loggers.
(10) In September last year, 23 Cambodian would-be loggers fled their traffickers upon discovery that Siamese rosewood was their target, and handed themselves over to the Thai police, according to the Cambodia Daily .
(11) Ambient temperature was recorded every five minutes throughout the night on a Grant Squirrel data logger.
(12) But almost 200,000 hectares of Tasmania's old growth forest were world heritage-listed in 2013, bringing hope that a three-decade fight between environmentalists, politicians and loggers is over.
(13) Millions of hectares are nominally protected, but the forest is fragmented, national parks are surrounded by plantations, illegal loggers work with impunity and corruption is rife in government.
(14) They told me that they weren't really loggers, just doing the job to survive: Elias said that felling the odd tree was all he could do to clothe and feed his severely disabled daughter.
(15) The prevalence of chronic bronchitis among the 211 loggers was 6%.
(16) An inexpensive four-channel data logger for recording gastrointestinal potentials is described.
(17) The blueprint for deforestation reduction makes it clear that hitting the targets depends on Brazil's ability to raise funds for its fight against the loggers.
(18) He also backed the prime minister’s claim that loggers are the “ultimate conservationists”.
(19) Illegal loggers are ransacking sanctuaries in southwest China that are home to more than 30% of the world’s pandas, according to a Greenpeace investigation.
(20) Average exposure levels for loggers engaged only in felling are twice those for cutters who also perform limbing, bucking and manual skidding of the timber, since these latter operations involve considerably lower exposure.