Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 73-20-80: Airco Vacuum Metals Company: Berkeley, California

Details

• Personal Author:
  Okawa, Melvin T.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental evaluation and medical interviews at a stainless steel ingot producing plant reveal that under the conditions of use observed, vermiculite (1318009) and basolite dusts do not represent a health hazard. The use of respirators is recommended for the moving of large amounts of the compounds and during chamber cleaning operations. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Dust
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Metals
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • NIOSH-Publication
  • NIOSH-Author
  • HHE-73-20-80
  • OSHA Region 9
  • Hazards-Unconfirmed
  • Air-quality-measurement
  • Air-sampling
  • Dust-control
  • Dust-sampling
  • Metallurgical-processes
  More +
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE732080
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Berkeley (CA) ; OSHA Region 9
• 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:
  2 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027274
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-232574
• 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 73-20-80, 1973 Oct ; :1-2
• CAS Registry Number:
  • Vermiculite (CAS RN 1318-00-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1974
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174175/cdc_174175_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 584.44 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:02179c0be02eacdb7ce6b7b0e0908cdce07eee97d41f71317fc6847efa35170b9031bb911ba4f64d28f1197e72489b2b10a6a9755583e94e685221b8db477837