Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 94-0329: Standard Steel, Burnham, Pennsylvania

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• Personal Author:
  Hewett, Daniel J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from current employees of Standard Steel (SIC-3296) located in Burnham, Pennsylvania, an investigation was begun into possible hazardous working conditions at that site. Workers were concerned about exposures to alumino-silicate fiber insulation which lined the interior of the industrial furnaces. A total of 16 time weighted average personal breathing zone and work area samples were collected and analyzed for total and respirable particulates. Respirable quartz (14808607) was detected in one refractory ceramic fiber (RCF) removal sample, below the minimum quantifiable concentration. No cristobalite was detected in any of the samples. The ten time weighted average area total particulate samples from Heat Treatment Plant Number One and RCF removal operations ranged from 0.10 to 0.52mg/m3. No quartz or cristobalite was detected in any of these samples. It was recommended that workers handling RCF should wear specific levels of respiratory protection and that company officials should monitor RCF concentrations regularly to characterize the task specific exposures to RCF. Such information will assist the company in determining the appropriate level of respiratory protection for specific tasks.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Dust Occupational Health Particulate Matter Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Silicon Dioxide
• Keywords:
  Airborne-dusts Airborne-particles Beehive Cristobalite Crystalline Silica Dust Furnace Hazard-Confirmed HETA-94-0329-2574 Long Car Mineral-dusts Mineral Fiber NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report OSHA Region 3 Refractory-metals Refractory Ceramic Fiber Respiratory-system-disorders

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9403292574
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  50 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Piacitelli, Chris A. ; Vandestouwe, Kurt H.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00235003
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-147243
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: 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 94-0329-2574, 1996 Apr ; :1-47
• CAS Registry Number:
  Crystalline silica, quartz (CAS RN 14808-60-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3296 - Mineral wool - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1cb1710f1da1eb454ef88d709b4d5959ed4617a27dd3b4cc3f02287db7b0f0695eebb67647d4ba738051339d6036ec895f81449cfe397d622174ca8aef71bd45
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171168/cdc_171168_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 452.26 KB ]