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:
  Boiler Shop Products: Industrial Boilers, Smokestacks, And Steel Tanks Construction Construction-Search Electrostatic Precipitators Eye-irritants Hazard-Confirmed OSHA Region 5 Ozone Pulp-industry Respiratory-irritants Respiratory Irritants Vent Stack Emissions

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9800032698
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• 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:
  Ozone (CAS RN 10028-15-6) ; Formaldehyde (CAS RN 50-00-0) ; Nitric oxide (CAS RN 10102-43-9) ; Sulfur dioxide (CAS RN 7446-09-5) ; Hydrochloric acid, anhydrous (CAS RN 7647-01-0) ; Concentrated Nitric acid (70%) (CAS RN 7697-37-2) ; Sulfuric acid (CAS RN 7664-93-9) ; Phosphoric acid (CAS RN 7664-38-2) ; Hydrofluoric acid, anhydrous (CAS RN 7664-39-3) ; Hydrobromic acid (CAS RN 10035-10-6)
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3443 - Fabricated plate work (boiler shops) - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f937c2fb4ab55334ec1be0a7f0b843c59d3e7ead7603fe835d327ece7e8d5917fbd80b0e03c6a977d7aa22592698dbbe5086e51acab7099f6a9ef83fc30b3eb0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171041/cdc_171041_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 223.39 KB ]