Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 74-9-174: Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation: Steubenville, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Rosensteel, Robert E.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Examination of the working condition at a steel mill (SIC-3325) revealed that dust containing free silica (7631869) is potentially toxic to blast furnace workers and to personnel working in the stockhouse area. This determination is based upon air concentration levels of total dust containing free silica up to four times the Federal Standard for blast furnace workers and up to twenty eight times the Federal Standard for larry car operators in the stockhouse as well as criteria concerning the toxic effects of free silica. It has also been determined that potentially toxic exposures did not exist on the day of evaluation to the crane operator in the stripper building from exposure to iron-oxide (1317619) fume, carbon-monoxide (630080), and free silica or to maintenance workers in the 44 inch soaking pit area from exposure to sulfur-dioxide (7446095) and carbon-monoxide. Detectable levels of carbon-monoxide, sulfur- dioxide, and iron-oxide fume were not measured while the free silica level was less than 0.4 of the Federal Standard. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Carbon Monoxide Dust Environmental Monitoring Ferrous Compounds Hazardous Substances Metals Occupational Health Safety Silicon Dioxide Sulfur Dioxide Toxicology

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-quality-measurement Blast Furnace Carbon Monoxide CO Dust Dust-analysis Dust-control Dust-sampling Exposure-limits Hazard-Confirmed HHE-74-9-174 Iron Oxide Legislation NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 5 Primary-metallurgical-processes Silica Silica-dusts SO2 Steelmaking Stockhouse Sulfur Dioxide Toxic-gases

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE749174
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Steubenville (OH) ; 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. ; Ruhe, Raymond L. ; Smallwood, Anthony W. ; Cromer, John W.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00049981
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-273836
• 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 74-9-174, 1975 Feb ; :1-10
• CAS Registry Number:
  Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9) ; Iron(II,III) oxide (CAS RN 1317-61-9) ; Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Sulfur dioxide (CAS RN 7446-09-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• 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-512:033e9d0cede9c7b4e11e9850112c05566d488c9ffc05919df3f894e519492764f70c87e1be56dd1c4fc465cae9f249e7aa3e7769f9e9b4316616d29fd58573d1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174057/cdc_174057_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.54 MB ]