Health Hazard Evaluation Report 72-91-37: Mobil Oil Corporation: Augusta, Kansas

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Evaluation of hazards from exposures to asbestos (1332214) dust and hot environments relevant to an oil refinery's requirement for insulators' wearing of special clothing. Survey of insulators does not indicate any symptoms attributable to overexposure to asbestos, although wearing of paper coveralls over personal clothes contributes somewhat to the problem of heat exposure. Asbestos is not found toxic at the concentrations used and found in the insulators' working operation. The toxic effects of prolonged inhalation of asbestos include pulmonary fibrosis and asbestosis, respiratory insufficiency, and cardiac failure. Physical agents include: hot environments which create heat fatigue characterized by decreased ability to concentrate, tiredness, and irritability, heat collapse, exhaustion, or syncope. Recommendations include adherence to the Federal rules and NIOSH standards relating to exposures to hot environments, and provision of cloth coveralls instead of paper coveralls, and laundering services. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  There is no authorship shown on the document. The authors that were listed digitally are: Hervin RL
  
  Rivera R
  
  Flesch, Jerome P.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Asbestos Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular System Dust Hazardous Substances Hot Temperature Inorganic Chemicals Lung Nervous System Diseases Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Temperature

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• Keywords:
  Asbestos Cardiovascular-system-disorders Dust-control Fibrous-dusts Hazard-Confirmed Heat HHE-72-91-37 Hot-environments Lung-fibrosis Nervous-system-disorders NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication OSHA Region 7 Personal-protective-equipment Respiratory-system-disorders Thermal-regulation Thermal-stress Toxic-substances

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE729137
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kansas ; Augusta (KS) ; OSHA Region 7
• 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:
  19 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027254
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-229514
• 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 72-91-37, 1973 Apr ; :1-19
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1973
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6c549b095fce32857a696556b77db7c8360cbd6b19b7f00c9eafb21250c779b4e1a6c02001b03d70e96052ac21f362224c089e7861677eff9232545a6f0e0278
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174194/cdc_174194_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.45 MB ]