Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 78-47-570: American Concrete Division, Union Metal Company: Waukegan, Illinois

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• Personal Author:
  Bryant, Charles J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental and personal air samples were analyzed for the presence of toluene (108883), mineral-spirits (8030306), naptha (8030306), methyl-isobutyl-ketone (108101), total particulates, respirable particulates, respirable free silica (7631869), iron- oxide-fume, chromium (7440473), nickel (7440020), copper (7440508), and aluminum (7429905), at the American Concrete Division of the Union Metal Company (SIC-2819) in Waukegan, Illinois on March 30, July 5, and October 20, 1978. An evaluation request came from an authorized representative of the approximately 60 affected workers. The airborne concentrations of respirable free silica in three personal samples exceeded the NIOSH recommended standard of 0.05 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/CuM), and ranged from 0.013 to evaluation criteria. The author recommends reducing crystalline silica by using engineering controls, institution of a respiratory protection program, enclosure of the mold spinning machines, and the control of peak exposures to air contaminants by the installation of local ventilation systems on respiratory protection equipment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Dust Environmental Monitoring Inorganic Chemicals Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-sampling Airborne-dusts Concrete, Aluminum, Or Steel Light Poles Control-methods Free Silica Hazard-Confirmed HHE-78-47-570 Inorganic-chemicals NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 5 Respirable Silica Standards Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7847570
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Waukegan (IL) ; 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:
  12 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Kramkowski, Richard S. ; Salisbury, Stanley A. ; Richmond, Elizabeth D.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00104803
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-145593
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE 78-47-570, 1979 Mar ; :1-12
• CAS Registry Number:
  Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; Petroleum ether (CAS RN 8030-30-6) ; Methyl isobutyl ketone (CAS RN 108-10-1) ; Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9) ; Chromium (CAS RN 7440-47-3) ; Nickel (CAS RN 7440-02-0) ; Copper (CAS RN 7440-50-8) ; Aluminum (CAS RN 7429-90-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2819 - Industrial inorganic chemicals, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:61146c7d1a41655ad1b64ac818cf2915d05770de69b2591b8e298ad4dcd046e425e9f02a55ce56607a4a9cb4979f18c3a8e494f89af2a65d87715712396efdda
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173499/cdc_173499_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.12 MB ]