Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-84-284-1701: Granite City Steel; Granite City, Illinois [superseded]

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• Personal Author:
  Almaguer, Daniel ; Orris P
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The International Chemical Workers Union requested an evaluation at Granite City Steel (SIC-3312), Granite City, Illinois regarding potential employee exposures to a tar like substance added to incoming coal. Bulk analysis of the material showed benzene/soluble coal tar pitch volatiles and naphthalene (91203), phenanthrene (85018), fluoranthene (206440), pyrene (129000), benz(a)anthracene (56553), chrysene (218019), benzo(e)pyrene (192972), benzo(a)pyrene (50328), and benz(g,h,i)perylene (191242). Personal air sampling showed that five of eight samples collected for benzene/solubles had concentrations of 88 to 141 micrograms/cubic meter (mg/m3). The total particulate fraction collected from coal dust in the basement of the pulverizer building contained 1.6 percent quartz (14808607). Respirable coal dust in personal samples ranged from 0.14 to 1.52 mg/m3. Of 15 employees working in the coke oven coal handling and by products areas, approximately two thirds experienced mucous membrane and skin irritation, headaches, shortness of breath, and nausea and about one half complained of cough and phlegm. No cases of skin or respiratory cancer were reported among these workers. The authors recommend that coal tar sludge waste product be disposed of according to EPA regulations. Engineering controls and personal protective equipment should be used to reduce exposure. Employees should be informed of potential hazards and enrolled in a coke plant medical monitoring program. This report was revised in May 1987. The revised report is available here: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/84-284-1701.pdf
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal Tar Pitch Volatiles Coke-manufacturing Coke-oven-emissions Coke-oven-workers Coke Ovens CTPVs Hazard-Confirmed HETA-84-284-1701 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report OSHA Region 5 PNA Polynuclear-aromatic-hydrocarbons Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons Respirable-dust Respirable Coal Dust

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; 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:
  1-17
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00163543
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB87-105581
• 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, HETA 84-284-1701 (revised), 1986 Jun; :1-17
• CAS Registry Number:
  Naphthalene (CAS RN 91-20-3) ; Phenanthrene (CAS RN 85-01-8) ; Fluoranthene (CAS RN 206-44-0) ; Pyrene (CAS RN 129-00-0) ; Benz(a) anthracene (CAS RN 56-55-3) ; Chrysene (CAS RN 218-01-9) ; Benzo(e)pyrene (CAS RN 192-97-2) ; Benzo(alpha)pyrene (CAS RN 50-32-8) ; Benzo(g,h,i) perylene (CAS RN 191-24-2) ; Silica, Crystalline (CAS RN 14808-60-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1986
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3312 - Blast furnaces and steel mills - (SIC 1987)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1350176b52fcbed1bf7a75f1b1e320d88b1b36e248b979f702c6747fbbf85368f2aa79fb3e8bd55302c0ec119051ab307d6cd0d966c305592ea3c886dfd018a3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172197/cdc_172197_DS1.pdf
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