Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HHE-80-235-1056: Inland Steel Company; East Chicago, Indiana

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• Personal Author:
  Orris, Peter
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from a representative of the United Steel Workers of America, Local 1010, an evaluation was made of possible health hazards at the Inland Steel Company (SIC-3312), East Chicago, Indiana. This facility manufactures structural steel products. The request was prompted by the frequency of cancer deaths among employees who had worked on the electrical sequence of the 76-inch Hot Strip Rolling Mill. An analysis of the working day of three electrical sequence workers did not indicate any time at which the workers were involved in any way with a known or suspected carcinogen. Electrical machinery containing polychlorinated- biphenyls (1336363) was sealed and the employees were not routinely involved in the repair of this equipment. Medical data revealed the cause of death for 14 former employees to be cancer related in six cases: one myelogenous leukemia, one colon cancer, one multiple myeloma, and three unspecified. The authors conclude that no known or suspected carcinogenic exposure to workers was identified. A full mortality study was not conducted due to the small group size and other methodological problems. The authors recommend that this group of employees be monitored for specific causes of death and any chronic illnesses which might develop, and that if hazardous substances should become important in their future work schedules, they be made aware of the hazards and proper safety and health precautions be taken.
• Subjects:
  Metals Metal Workers Mortality Neoplasms Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Cancer Cancer-rates Electrical Maintenance Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-80-235-1056 Metal-rolling Mortality-rates NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 5 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Steel-foundries Steel-industry Steel Works And Rolling Mills

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE802351056
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; 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:
  9 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Rinsky, Robert
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00179179
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB83-198432
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE 80-235-1056, 1982 Mar ; :1-6
• CAS Registry Number:
  Polychlorinated biphenyl(s)-PCB(s) (CAS RN 1336-36-3)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3312 - Blast furnaces and steel mills - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8bde573daac54e6e3642309ff0474e27bca9b6fa7302ad347d15ff8d82f8c5e67bad28b4df9b2d8d4289911cee26c68b436d551225c169775a351390e0068803
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171968/cdc_171968_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.86 MB ]