Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HHE determination report no. HHE-79-102-106: Homestake Mining Company (ID 39-00055), Lead, South Dakota

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• Alternative Title:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report no. 79-102-106: Homestake Mining Company (ID 39-00055), Lead, South Dakota
• Personal Author:
  Ferguson, Rick P.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  An analysis was made of possible hazardous working conditions at the Homestake Mining Company, located in Lead, South Dakota. The company mined and refined ore bearing gold and other metals. Personal, breathing zone, and area air samples were collected at the 2,150-foot level and analyzed for diesel emission particulates. Five of the up to 20 employees who worked at the 2,150-foot level were working in the area of the survey: two drove front end loaders. Results of air samples collected at the rock pick area, maintenance barn, and 49 raise and haulage ways of the 2,150-foot level showed ambient airborne concentrations of the contaminants measured to be below current federal and consensus standards as well as NIOSH recommended criteria. There was felt to be insufficient information available to evaluate the long-term health effects of diesel emissions to the underground miners. The authors recommend that the manufacturer's maintenance schedule be adhered to as closely as possible and that catalytic converters be changed as needed.
• Subjects:
  Dust Environmental Monitoring Mining Occupational Health Safety Vehicle Emissions
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-monitoring Diesel-exhausts Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-79-102-106 Mining-industry NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 8 Underground-miners
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  South Dakota ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  18 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Boud, J. R. ; Carr, Wally ; Denos, M. ; Grote, Ardith A. ; Holtz, J. C. ; Jones, Bill ; Lebrizzi, Joe ; Millson, Mark ; Piccirillo, Richard ; Reger, Bob ; Williams, Joseph
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00232181
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE 79-102-106, 1980 Jun ; :1-18
• Editor(s):
  Sanderson, Karen S.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:23131b36f104181fa2b55ede757c5f077e9a79472546aef91c0d4485a209e2ca33515f3c51c558df0169ffaead5aa941af86e36e3fe692276560d169c1f73547
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170671/cdc_170671_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 499.71 KB ]