Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 79-16-628: Ashland Petroleum Company, 2nd Avenue: Freedom, Pennsylvania

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• Personal Author:
  Chrostek, Walter J. ; Frederick, Linda J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental air sampling was performed and nondirect medical questionnaires were administered on March 6 and 7, 1979 at Ashland Petroleum Company, (SIC-1311) Freedom, Pennsylvania to determine if employees were exposed to bauxite (1318167) dust and unknown toxic substances. The evaluation was requested by the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union Local 8-621, for the 15 potentially exposed employees. The benzene (71432) soluble fraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PPAH) measured 0.43 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/cu m) and exceeded the OSHA recommended exposure limit of 0.20mg/cu m in one of four sampling periods. Total dust particulates ranged from 1.1 to 8.5mg/cu m, lead (7439921) was undetectable, and sulfur dioxide (7446095) gas measured 3.1 micrograms/cu m. All were below their respective recommended limits of 15mg/cu m, 50 mg/cu m, and 13mg/cu m. Medical reports of acute, intermittent irritation of the eyes and mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, dry skin, occasional headache, sinus congestion, and wheezing with exertion were associated with increased heat and with the burning of certain products that probably contained sulfur dioxide. The authors recommend periodic vacuum cleaning of the burner house, periodic maintenance of the burner and ducts to seal leaks
  
  a program of environmental sampling, preplacement and periodic medical examinations for exposed workers, maintaining medical records on all employees exposed for 1 or more years to sulfur dioxide, and a review of the value of the current preemployment practice of routinely recording lower back radiographs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
  
  
• Subjects:
  Dust Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Labor Unions Lead Occupational Health Petroleum Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Bauxite Dust Fluoranthene Hazards-Confirmed HHE-79-16-628 Irritation Of The Eyes And Mucous Membranes Medical-screening NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 3 Particulate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Petroleum-refining PPAH Sulfur Dioxide Gas Total Dust Particulate Toxic-substances Unions

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7916628
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; Freedom (PA) ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  16 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; DiCostanza, Michelle
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00092410
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB80-193816
• 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 79-16-628, 1979 Nov ; :1-16
• CAS Registry Number:
  Bauxite (CAS RN 1318-16-7) ; Benzene (CAS RN 71-43-2) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Sulfur dioxide (CAS RN 7446-09-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  1311 - Crude petroleum and natural gas - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f8a4e8373fffaa531f993e4ef28e90cfe968faeb25619e4ae3ca8a57f750886905546624b7b34dead46dea5a9913cd7ffb270cf85de08e684d2c4434d1034aad
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173735/cdc_173735_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.63 MB ]