Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 98–0003–2698: Potlatch Corporation – Minnesota Pulp and Paper Division, Cloquet, Minnesota

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• Personal Author:
  Hall, Ronald M. ; Kinnes, Gregory M. ; Mattorano, Dino A. ; Page, Elena H.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  On October 1, 1997, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request for a Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) at the Potlach Corporation - Minnesota Pulp and Paper Division (PCMPPD) plant in Cloquet, Minnesota. The request, from the Duluth Building and Construction Trades Council, concerned potential worker exposures during the construction of a new boiler. The primary concern was for emissions generated from three adjacent operating boilers. The reported health effects were headache and respiratory symptoms. Since April 1997, PCMPPD and company-contracted environmental consultants have sampled for more than 100 different chemical compounds at the construction site in an effort to identify the source of the worker's symptoms. However, PCMPPD and the environmental consultants did not sample for ozone. An industrial hygiene and medical evaluation was conducted on November 19-21, 1997. Sampling efforts during the evaluation were focused on potential worker exposures incurred from the nearby operating boilers and welding operations. Area air samples at the construction site were collected for ozone, chlorine, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and inorganic acids (hydrofluoric, hydrochloric, nitric, phosphoric, sulfuric, and hydrobromic acid).
• Subjects:
  • Construction Industry
  • Eye Foreign Bodies
  • Irritants
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Pulp-industry
  • Respiratory-irritants
  • Eye-irritants
  • Hazard-Confirmed
  • OSHA Region 5
  • Construction-Search
  • Boiler shop products: Industrial boilers, smokestacks, and steel tanks
  • ozone
  • electrostatic precipitators
  • vent stack emissions
  More +
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9800032698
• Document Type:
  Text
• Editor:
  Arthur, Penny
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  17 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Herbert, Nichole
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000496
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-152142
• 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 98-0003-2698, 1998 Jul ; :1-16
• CAS Registry Number:
  • Concentrated Nitric acid (70%) (CAS RN 7697-37-2)
  • Formaldehyde (CAS RN 50-00-0)
  • Hydrobromic acid (CAS RN 10035-10-6)
  • Hydrochloric acid, anhydrous (CAS RN 7647-01-0)
  • Hydrofluoric acid, anhydrous (CAS RN 7664-39-3)
  • Nitric oxide (CAS RN 10102-43-9)
  • Ozone (CAS RN 10028-15-6)
  • Phosphoric acid (CAS RN 7664-38-2)
  • Sulfur dioxide (CAS RN 7446-09-5)
  • Sulfuric acid (CAS RN 7664-93-9)
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3443 - Fabricated plate work (boiler shops) - (SIC)
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171041/cdc_171041_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 223.39 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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