Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 75-130-484: Westvaco Corporation, Carbon Plant, Chemical Division: Covington, Virginia

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• Personal Author:
  Chrostek, Walter J. ; Piccirillo, Richard E.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  An evaluation was made to determine whether exposure to carbon (7440440) dust and carbon impregnated with phosphoric-acid (7664382) was posing a health hazard to the employees in paper mills (SIC- 2621). This facility consists of three divisions: 1) paperboard, 2) carbon and 3) research. The area of interest during this evaluation was the carbon division. Two types of carbon are made at this facility: one from ground wood pulp and the second from bituminous coal. The evaluation consisted of an environmental evaluation, medical interviews and limited chest examination. It has been determined that although airborne concentrations of airborne carbon impregnated with phosphoric-acid were excessive during the primary evaluation of 1975, they were not excessive during the second evaluation of 1976. These determinations are based on the environmental measurements made. No conclusive determinations could be made from the medical tests performed. The process of activation with phosphoric-acid was in existence at this facility for one year prior to this study. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Carbon Dust Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Phosphoric Acids Safety Ventilation Wood
• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-sampling Carbon Dust Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-75-130-484 Industrial-hygiene Inorganic-acids NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Occupational-health Organic-compounds OSHA Region 3 Phosphates Phosphoric Acid Pulp-industry Wood-dusts

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE75130484
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Virginia ; Covington (VA) ; 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:
  22 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Hatch, Loren L. ; Shoemaker, William E. ; Roper, C. Paul ; Solook, John ; Bair, Jerry W. ; Donnelly, James H. ; Hankinson, John L. ; Kennedy, Kay ; Lafferty, Hope ; Peterson, Martin ; Rushford, Jeff ; Shaffer, Richard ; Snarr, Jim ; Fran, Nina ; Rushing, D. E. ; Larkin, Robert L. ; Kim, Soo Wang
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00080191
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-197401
• 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 75-130-484, 1975 Apr ; :1-22
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon (CAS RN 7440-44-0) ; Phosphoric acid (CAS RN 7664-38-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2621 - Paper mills - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ba22e08a8efb48beff108cdd4663d42c45676a45bb20f94f3773af672f5da9362f8564b00af6946f9795539065e9beecad31d2c0d9499d7799e45443f22f480c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173822/cdc_173822_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.25 MB ]