Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report 78-94-538: Mark Steel Corporation: Salt Lake City, Utah

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• Personal Author:
  Okawa, Melvin T.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental surveys were conducted on June 20 and 21, 1978, to evaluate the potential health hazard of an abrasive, made from lead smelter slag, used in the abrasive blasting operation at the Mark Steel Corporation (SIC-3325) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The evaluation was requested by a company representative on behalf of two affected employees. The bulk abrasive grit sample contained less than 1 percent silicon-dioxide (7631869). Three of four respirable dust samples contained no silica and concentrations of respirable dust ranged from 3.4 to 4.7 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3), which were below the OSHA standard of 5.0mg/m3. No cadmium (7440439) was detected in any of the samples. Lead (7439921) concentrations ranged from 0.25 to 2.34mg/m3, exceeding the from 29.0 to 69.1 micrograms per cubic meter, exceeding the 10.0 micrograms per cubic meter OSHA standard. The author concludes that employees working at the abrasive blasting operation are potentially exposed to toxic airborne concentrations of inorganic lead and inorganic arsenic, and that employees may be exposed to excess concentrations of crystalline silica. A substitute grit should be considered, a medical monitoring program should be instituted, and a respiratory protection program should be provided for concerned employees. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Arsenic Cadmium Dust Environmental Monitoring Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Surveys Inorganic Chemicals Lead Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Keywords:
  Abrasive Blasting Air-contamination Air-sampling Airborne-dusts Control-methods Dust-exposure Fabricated-plate-work Hazard-Unconfirmed Health-survey HHE-78-94-538 Industrial-gases Industrial-hygiene Industrial-processes Inorganic Arsenic Inorganic Lead Medical-monitoring NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 8 Steel

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7894538
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Utah ; Salt Lake City (UT) ; OSHA Region 8
• 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:
  Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00101011
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-143018
• 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 78-94-538, 1978 Nov ; :1-9
• CAS Registry Number:
  Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9) ; Cadmium (CAS RN 7440-43-9) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Arsenic (CAS RN 7440-38-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3325 - Steel foundries, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8034b24741e0f1ce3e7b4aca0237d5390bb78a938cf38acb0fc80ee072bee96bbdfbe524efd39d13cc0569129db226593f9984f3fd1a1406997358d11e19ccb6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173587/cdc_173587_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.97 MB ]