Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 97-0232-2674: Bardon-Trimount, Stoughton, Massachusetts

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• Personal Author:
  Burr, Gregory A. ; Miller, Aubrey K.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Approximately 285 million used tires are discarded in the United States each year, posing significant health, fire, and solid waste management problems. As one means of reducing these problems, considerable attention has been focused on the use of scrap tire rubber in highway paving materials. In 1991, Congress enacted the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), which required each state to use a minimum quantity of 'crumb rubber modified' (CRM) hot-mix asphalt (HMA) paving material, beginning at 5% of the HMA used in federally funded paving in 1993, and increasing to 20% in 1997 and thereafter. Because of public concerns over the lack of available information on the environmental and human health effects resulting from the use of CRM-HMA, along with the higher initial cost of using this paving material, a temporary legislative moratorium was passed which precluded enforcement of the penalty provisions of the ISTEA legislation. This legislation also directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to evaluate the potential environmental and human health effects associated with the use of CRM asphalt. The recently passed National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 has eliminated the mandate requiring the use of CRM asphalt but continues to require research concerning CRM asphalt paving.
• Subjects:
  Ear Hydrocarbons Occupational Health Particulate Matter Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Sense Organs
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling-particulates Asphalt-fumes Asphalt Fume Benzene Soluble Particulate Bitumen CRM Crumb Rubber Modified Elemental Carbon Eye Irritation Hazard-Confirmed Highway And Street Construction Hydrocarbons Interstate Highways Occupational-noise OSHA Region 1 PACs PAH Paving Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons Recycled Tires Respirable Particulate Respiratory Irritation Total Particulate Volatile Organic Compounds Weather

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9702322674
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Interagency Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• 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:
  65 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Blade, Leo ; Blythe, Ellen E. ; Cook, Calvin K. ; Grote, Ardith A. ; Jaycox, Larry ; Key-Schwartz, Rosa ; Kurimo, Robert ; Lopez, Ali ; May, Leroy ; Neumeister, Charles ; Olsen, Larry ; Sylvain, David
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000556
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-149320
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 97-0232-2674, 1998 Feb ; :1-58
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  1611 - Highway and street construction - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b7127ab2c214872082730180ac9cf8a024b1cea6acbcda069b0b3614c9f0329f7edacb5f2135a978701e6d83e7d8a1d06972d1ce12518a1a523cc39acab2a7f0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170995/cdc_170995_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.90 MB ]