Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 75-182-334: New England Foundry: Lawrence, Massachusetts

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• Personal Author:
  Hollett, Bruce A.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A NIOSH environmental survey team conducted a health evaluation of the New England Foundry (SIC-3362) to evaluate employee exposure to a number of potential health hazards in several work areas. Airborne concentrations of crystalline silica (7631869) dust were found to be potentially toxic in all of the surveyed work areas. Exposure measurements were taken for both respirable and total dust, and in both the personal breathing zone and work areas for molders, coremakers, mullers, laborers, floormen, pourers, melters, and grinders. Airborne concentrations of metal dusts and fumes of copper (7440508), zinc-oxide and tin-oxide (1314109) were within accepted exposure limits during the period of this survey. However, lead (7439921) dust and fumes were found to be potentially toxic in breathing zone measurements for melters, pourers, and grinders. Ten of the 14 hydrogen-cyanide (74908) and all of the phenols measurements were well within accepted exposure limits for the period of this survey based on coremakers breathing zone and area samples. The other four hydrogen-cyanide samples were insufficient volume to detect below the criteria concentration. Limited area sampling and colorimetric tube measurements showed no evidence of exposure to pourers, molders or shakeout workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Carcinogens Dust Environmental Monitoring Lead Metals Metals, Heavy Occupational Health Safety Silicon Dioxide Toxicology Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Copper Coremakers Crystalline Silica Dust-control Dust-sampling Fibrogenic-dusts Floormen Fumes Grinders Hazards-Confirmed Heavy-metals HHE-75-182-334 Hydrogen Cyanide Laborers Lead Dust Lead Fumes Melters Metal Dusts Metallic-dusts Microanalysis Molders Mullers NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 1 Phenols Pourers Primary-metallurgical-processes Respirable-dust Respirable Dust Silica-dusts Tin Oxide Total Dust Zinc Oxide

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE75182334
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Lawrence (MA) ; OSHA Region 1
• 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:
  23 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Kominsky, John R. ; Burroughs, G. Edward ; Kupel, Richard E.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00057321
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-273778
• 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 75-182-334, 1976 Oct ; :1-23
• CAS Registry Number:
  Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9) ; Copper (CAS RN 7440-50-8) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Hydrogen cyanide (CAS RN 74-90-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3362 - Brass, Bronze, and Copper Foundries - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:cafdfb7889851309f4902b23a8d0daaf0fcb59e704c412e84f7fb5f2245b8ce0f43b061904d7ae11690575d3bad1ba52ff9d87433d56254ac582d351e5501115
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173991/cdc_173991_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.32 MB ]