Health Hazard Evaluation Report 72-27: Hoerner-Waldorf Corporation: Jefferson, Ohio

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• Alternative Title:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Report 72-27-21: Hoerner-Waldorf Corporation: Jefferson, Ohio
• Personal Author:
  Okawa, Melvin T.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental surveys of the bailing, printing, and corrugation processes are conducted for airborne concentrations of asbestos (1332214) fibers. The asbestos count in the breathing zone of bailing operatives is found to be 2.1 fibers per cubic centimeter while the concentration in the general work area is 0.3 fibers per cubic centimeter. Recommendations include local exhaust ventilation for the printing machine workers, wearing of respirator whenever scrap asbestos is bailed, replacement of air hoses by vacuum cleaners, and management's strict adherence to the rules and regulations governing the use and control of asbestos. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  Original title is missing part of the report number – full number is shown in alternate title
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Asbestos Dust Environmental Pollution Household Work Inorganic Chemicals Occupational Health Particulate Matter Personal Protective Equipment Safety Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Airborne-dusts Asbestos-dust Corrugated Shipping Containers Dust-control Dust-inhalation Environmental-contamination Fibrous-dusts Hazard-Confirmed HHE-72-27-21 Housekeeping Legislation MAC Mineral-dusts NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication OSHA Region 5 Personal-protective-equipment Ventilation-systems

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE722721
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Jefferson (OH) ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  10 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027224
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-229082
• 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 72-27-21, 1972 Sep ; :1-9
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1972
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:babcdadabb0d933a49fdb4b4383ebf01e03727515dc8ab8d7e2a4a3fddbd1de64378916115af8972318577a03ae349d1fef675a8f8dd892eee090ae24296499f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174221/cdc_174221_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 476.25 KB ]