Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-82-305-1541: Fountain Avenue Landfill; Brooklyn, New York

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• Personal Author:
  Costello, Richard J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental and breathing zone samples were analyzed for organic solvent vapors, metals, asbestos (1332214), quartz (14808607), airborne dusts, and carbon-monoxide (630080) at Fountain Avenue Landfill, Brooklyn, New York in September 1982. Noise levels were also monitored. The survey was requested by the Commissioner of Health for the City of New York due to concern for worker health and safety and the possibility that contaminants from the landfill might migrate to nearby housing areas. No chemical exposures exceeded a recognized occupational exposure standard. Most exposures were less than 0.001 to 0.01 of the applicable standards. Noise levels ranged from 82.9 to 95.5 A-weighted decibels (dBA). The OSHA standard for noise is 90dBA. Hearing protection was used by all heavy equipment operators
  
  operators reported receiving monitoring audiometry. The author concludes that workers at the facility are not over exposed to chemicals. Noise from operating heavy equipment is the only hazard observed. Hazardous noise exposure is adequately controlled by using hearing protection and implementation of a hearing conservation program. The low occupational exposure to airborne contaminants at the landfill implies a minimal risk to nearby residents.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Asbestos Ear Environmental Pollution Inorganic Chemicals Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Noise Occupational Health Safety Sense Organs Waste Management
• Keywords:
  Air Sampling Asbestos Environmental-contamination Hazardous Noise Hazards-Unconfirmed HETA-82-305-1541 Landfills Machine-operation Metals NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Noise-exposure Noise-measurement OSHA Region 2 Refuse Systems Solvents Waste-disposal

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA823051541
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  38 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Geraci, Charles ; Lee, Shiu T. ; Singal, Mitchell ; Liss, Gary M. ; Crandall, Michael S. ; Boiano, James M. ; King, Michael V.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00148231
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB85-247542
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 82-305-1541, 1984 Dec ; :1-37
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4) ; Silica, Crystalline (CAS RN 14808-60-7) ; Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1985
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  4953 - Refuse systems - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:30a082a22f344465ebc9f74beb71a85be6db0875fb8b0c4f5e503efce2f144a5567bd0375c89934b9ce328be3058326a4c0f7862dece09e022d787fdd468e62f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172696/cdc_172696_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.25 MB ]