Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report 73-43-103: Coke Plant East Works, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation: Follensbee, West Virginia

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• Personal Author:
  Gunter, Bobby J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Laboratory analysis of personal air samples taken in different areas of a coke plant reveals that employee exposure to the concentrations of coal tar pitch volatiles, benzene (71432) soluble fractions, are potentially toxic. All coke plant workers have periodic chest x-rays and liver function tests to indicate any biological damage caused by coke oven emissions. Recommendations are made for administrative and other control measures. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety Solvents
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Benzene Soluble Fraction Coal Tar Pitch Volatiles Coke-manufacturing Environmental-contaminants Furnaces Hazard-Confirmed HHE-73-43-103 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication OSHA Region 3 Preventive-medicine Solvent-extraction Steel Toxic-gases

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7343103
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  West Virginia ; Follensbee (WV) ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DTS - Division of Technical Services
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Ruhe, Raymond L. ; Limtiaco, Leonard
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027310
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-232734
• 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 73-43-103, 1974 Dec ; :1-5
• CAS Registry Number:
  Benzene (CAS RN 71-43-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c6e458f414b345d7bd1466d77c02c98e801e43cb0b3097d5e10aa8634bf4831bceaf22d6b0bbc3003b64192e3f3f7992f1f642a0d9534795a52a460fccbace8b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174140/cdc_174140_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 145.37 KB ]