Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 75-192-330: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Ind.: Mt. Zion, Illinois

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• Personal Author:
  Borcherding, Charles H. Jr.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A health hazard evaluation of roll fabrication operations at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries (SIC-3229) plant, Mt. Zion, Illinois, revealed that airborne asbestos (1332214) fibers in excess of the proposed OSHA standard prevailed at the baghouse emptying operation and at the nailing operation. The teardown operator was exposed to excessive levels of asbestos when using poor techniques. The grooving operation was characterized by exposure to asbestos fibers in excess of the proposed, but not of the existing OSHA standard. Recommendations are made to reduce worker exposure to airborne asbestos. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Asbestos Carcinogens Dust Environmental Monitoring Inorganic Chemicals Occupational Health Particulate Matter Preventive Medicine Safety Toxicology Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-quality-measurement Airborne-particulates Asbestos Asbestos-dust Control-measures Dust-control Exposure-limits Fibrogenic-dusts Glass Hazard-Confirmed HHE-75-192-330 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication Occupational-health OSHA Region 5 Preventive-medicine Safety-standards Ventilation

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE75192330
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Mount Zion (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:
  10 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Kramkowski, Richard S. ; Nelson, John H.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00057197
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-269102
• 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 75-192-330, 1976 Sep ; :1-10
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3229 - Pressed and blown glass, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:97ead5939f8cdc5ae200b9e734500a99458ddb3853feeef107387d159b14ae629d11c2f9cd33f54bef13087935220cd6c758ff80721d08261e0d3d36031280c3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173995/cdc_173995_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.67 MB ]