Case | Sex | Age | Year | Site | Diagnosis | Source of case | Routes of exposure | |||||||
A. Cases of malignant mesothelioma among workers employed by Amiantifera at the Balangero mining site | ||||||||||||||
1 | M | 51 | 1975 | Pleural | Cytol | Piolatto et al4 | Blue-collar worker at Amiantifera (1940–1973). No further data currently available. | |||||||
2 | M | 62 | 1977 | Pleural | Histol | Piolatto et al4 | Blue-collar worker at Amiantifera (1942–1967). No further data currently available. | |||||||
3 | M | 64 | 1985 | Pleural | Histol | RMM | Blue-collar worker at Amiantifera (1954–1985): miner in the first years of employment, later technical staff and lastly manager. | |||||||
4 | M | 68 | 1989 | Pleural | Cytol, ICC | RMM | Blue-collar worker at Amiantifera (1936–1941 and 1942–1944): miners’ aid, and later rock driller, then miller and fibre mixer. No other asbestos exposure at work. | |||||||
5 | M | 73 | 1992 | Pleural | Histol, IHC | RMM | Blue-collar worker at Amiantifera (1942–1969) as miners’ aid and later miller. No other asbestos exposure at work. | |||||||
6 | M | 77 | 1994 | Pleural | Clinical | RMM | Blue-collar worker at Amiantifera (1938–1965). No further data currently available. | |||||||
7* | M | 67 | 2002 | Pleural | Cytol, ICC | RMM | Blue-collar worker at Amiantifera as plant electrician (1964–1965). Electrician in a steel mill (1953–1955), in railway coach construction (1955–1958), in an iron foundry (1959–1963 and 1966–1971), and in a motor vehicle assembly plant (1971–1989). | |||||||
8 | M | 76 | 2005 | Pleural | Clinical | RMM | White-collar worker, then manager at Amiantifera (1956–1985). No other asbestos exposure at work. | |||||||
9 | M | 78 | 2006 | Pleural | Histol, IHC | RMM | Blue-collar worker at Amiantifera (1959–1967), asbestos bagger. White-collar worker at Amiantifera (1967–1987). No other asbestos exposure at work. Lived close to the mining area (1959–1987). | |||||||
B. Cases of malignant mesothelioma among workers employed by subcontractors at the Balangero mining site | ||||||||||||||
10 | M | 36 | 1989 | Pleural | Histol | RMM | Bricklayer and roofer, engaged in building an asbestos mill at the mining site (1968–1972). Lift mechanic (1967–1968). No other asbestos exposure at work. Lived inside the mining site (1968–1972). | |||||||
11* | M | 59 | 1992 | Pleural | Histol, IHC | RMM | Blue-collar worker for a subcontractor, working at the mining site as a miners’ aid (1949). Bricklayer (1949–1957), worker in a nylon production facility (1957–1959), worker in the curing department of a tyre production plant (1963–1977), marble cutter (1979–1989). | |||||||
12 | M | 68 | 2003 | Pleural | Histol, IHC | Riboldi et al9 | Blue-collar worker for a subcontractor, working at the mining site as a lorry driver, carrying asbestos ore from the mine to the mill and tailings from the mill to the dumping site (1955). No other asbestos exposure at work. | |||||||
13 | M | 74 | 2003 | Pleural | Histol, IHC | RMM | Blue-collar worker for a subcontractor transporting asbestos from the Amiantifera mine to different industries (1967–1989). Furnace worker in a steel mill (1966–1967). | |||||||
14 | M | 72 | 2006 | Pleural | Cytol, ICC | RMM | Blue-collar worker for a subcontractor as a lorry driver, carrying asbestos from the Amiantifera mine (1958–1973). No other asbestos exposure at work. Lived close to the mining area (1933–2006). |
*Possible exposure to other types of asbestos.
Cytol, cytological confirmation; Histol, histological confirmation; IHC/ICC: immune staining pattern suggestive of a mesothelial neoplasm, based on histological or cytological material, respectively; RMM, Registry of Malignant Mesotheliomas.