In a closely watched case unfolding in federal court, a jury is being asked to take up an intriguing question that has confounded many medical researchers: Can welding fumes cause neurological ...

(Reuters Health) - Workers exposed to welding fumes are more likely to develop lung cancer than those not exposed to the fumes, and a new study suggests this holds true regardless of other risk ...

About the size of a standard kitchen oven, a shiny, cherry red steel box is the newest piece of equipment in the lab of Jae Hong Park, Purdue University School of Health Sciences associate professor.

Have you ever visited a smoky, air-polluted welding shop? Or, worse yet, worked in one? Welding and cutting activities produce harmful fumes and particles from manual and robotic welding, arc gouging, ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: In a new journal article from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the Bacterial Special ...

New findings show that it’s not only welders themselves who are being exposed to welding fumes, but everyone working in the facility-– regardless of the size of the business or the sector in question.

Lawyers presented opening statements in Texas on Monday in the first trial among thousands of welding-fume lawsuits that have been filed around the country. At issue in the cases is whether welding ...

Chemical compounds formed in the process of arc welding and infiltrating the human body through the respiratory system are toxic because they contain metal oxidation products Working as part of an ...

Considering OSHA’s new three-part definition (1926.1202) of a “confined space” — which will be used to assess violations of the accumulation of toxic or flammable contaminates in a confined space — it ...

Objective—To study the airway response and its mechanism to welding fumes in six welders with respiratory symptoms. Methods—Methacholine and welding challenge tests were carried out. The concentration ...

Working as part of an international group of toxicologists scientists of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) have found that harmful nanoparticles are formed in the process of arc welding using ...