Health Hazard Evaluation Report HE 79-075-784: St. Clair Rubber Company: Marysville, Michigan

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• Personal Author:
  Salisbury, Stanley A. ; Salisbury, Stanley A.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Personal and area environmental samples were analyzed for the presence of carbon-black (1333864), lead (7439921), and antimony (7440360) and total particulates in the compounding area and mill room at the St. Clair Rubber Company, (SIC-3069) in Marysville, Michigan, from May 14 to 16, and November 19 and 20 1979. The evaluation was requested by a vice president of the company. The factory employed about 160 workers. Ten to 16 workers were assigned to the compounding area where raw materials were batched, mixed, milled, and calendered. Total dust particulates ranged from 0.03 to 6.9 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/CuM), one lead sample was 9.7 micrograms per cubic meter as an 8-hour time weighted average (TWA), antimony concentrations ranged from 0.01 to 0.15mg/CuM and carbon- black concentrations ranged from 0.11 to 2.59mg/CuM. Dust particulates, lead, antimony and carbon-black OSHA criteria standards were 10mg/CuM, 30 micrograms/CuM meter for an 8 hour (TWA), 0.5mg/CuM and 3.5mg/CuM for an 8 hour TWA, respectively. The author concludes that there were no hazardous exposures to dust containing carbon-black, lead or antimony under existing conditions. He recommends that work practices be closely monitored to minimize exposure to lead and antimony and that their suggestions for further reducing exposures be implemented. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Antimony Dust Environmental Monitoring Lead Occupational Health Rubber Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-sampling Antimony Oxide Carbon Black Compounding Fabricated Rubber Products) Hazards-Unconfirmed Health-surveys HHE-79-075-784 Lead Milling NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 5 Rubber-industry Rubber-manufacturing Ventilation Worker-health

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)   ; Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)  
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE79075784
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; Marysville (MI) ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  25 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Kramkowski, Richard S. ; Sullivan, Barbara
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00112009
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-150814
• 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 79-075-784, 1980 Dec ; :1-23
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon black (CAS RN 1333-86-4) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Antimony (CAS RN 7440-36-0) ; Carbon black (CAS RN 1333-86-4) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Antimony (CAS RN 7440-36-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3069 - Fabricated rubber products, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d6fd4001f137a3d6fd374b84a1e3f381c45389c6f2a5a9add1499acd4922612409f0ffca34819005dddc378590dc511b66d361e2de5877760b601ba1a7dda0e8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173460/cdc_173460_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.65 MB ]