Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 74-49-191: Owens-Illinois Glass Company: Atlanta, Georgia

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• Personal Author:
  Lucas, James B. ; Ruhe, Raymond L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental evaluation of a glass manufacturing company (SIC-3231) reveals that airborne dusts containing free silica (7631869) in batch houses are not toxic at the concentrations found. A potential hazard from silica dust exists to maintenance men servicing the batch house equipment. Measures for the control of free silica dust are presented. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Environmental Pollution Occupational Health Safety Silicon Dioxide
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-control Crystalline Silica Dust-control Environmental-contaminants Free Silica Hazard-Confirmed HHE-74-49-191 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication OSHA Region 4 Respirable Dust Total Dust

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7449191
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Atlanta (GA) ; OSHA Region 4
• 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:
  8 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Dekle, Gwen ; Nifong, Gordon ; Ramos, Henry ; Smallwood, Anthony W.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00039599
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-249371
• 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 74-49-191, 1975 May ; :1-8
• CAS Registry Number:
  Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3231 - Products of purchased glass - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a67ae2cce386b1fa7767af541a33a8393150e23643f0353c001801e163665e747b4142609709c754b52e1c6ac94b4273601eb868fc93617dc70613dcb7139021
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174080/cdc_174080_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.61 MB ]