Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-81-100-1140: Raybestos Friction Materials Company; Crawfordsville, Indiana

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• Personal Author:
  Klemme, Jay C. ; Zey, John N.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Employee exposure to lead (7439921) and asbestos (1332214) at Raybestos Friction Materials Company (SIC-3714), Crawfordsville, Indiana was investigated. The study was confidentially requested and was performed on March 11 to 13, 1981. The facility employed about 430 hourly workers including 93 in the brake block area. Personal airborne sampling was conducted to evaluate exposure to formaldehyde (50000), asbestos, lead, tin (7440315), barium (7440393), and zinc (7440666). Medical interviews were performed. Formaldehyde concentrations peaked at 0.82 parts per million. NIOSH considers formaldehyde to be a potential occupational carcinogen and recommends that exposures be maintained at the lowest feasible concentration. Four airborne samples of asbestos were above the NIOSH recommended standard of 0.1 fiber greater than 5.0 microns per cubic centimeter. Medical interviews did not reveal findings that could be attributed to asbestos, lead, or other heavy metal exposure. The authors conclude that a health hazard did exist in the brake block area since airborne concentrations of personal samples of formaldehyde and asbestos exceeded NIOSH criteria. Recommendations are made for increased environmental monitoring of airborne contaminants and for modification of employee work practices.
• Subjects:
  Asbestos Environmental Monitoring Formaldehyde Inorganic Chemicals Metals Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Asbestos-fibers Brake Shoe Cardiovascular Disease Hazards-Confirmed HETA-81-100-1140 Medical-surveys Motor Vehicle Parts And Accessories NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Organic-chemicals OSHA Region 5 Particulate-sampling-methods Sintering

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA811001140
• 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:
  25 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00127771
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB84-139880
• 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 81-100-1140, 1982 Jul ; :1-22
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4) ; Formaldehyde (CAS RN 50-00-0) ; Tin (CAS RN 7440-31-5) ; Barium (CAS RN 7440-39-3) ; Zinc (CAS RN 7440-66-6)
• Editor(s):
  McDonald, Debra A.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3714 - Motor vehicle parts and accessories - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:eaab3f2997acf6e68bea9b2936c684581c598a3646980595bd8a23f1eb2405e7c40af0dd57647608299762c1d24aebb3c6f07ca81a1fd384553e3d58470e085e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173038/cdc_173038_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.79 MB ]