Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 72-90-107: Arco Polymer Incorporated (Sinclair-Koppers Company, Inc.).: Monaca, PA 15051

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• Personal Author:
  Lucas, James B. ; Maier, Albert A. ; Rosensteel, Robert E. ; Ruhe, Raymond L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A NIOSH health hazard evaluation determination is presented for Arco Polymer Incorporated of Sinclair-Koppers Company, Incorporated, a styrene (100425) monomer production facility. Topics include: process description, evaluation design, evaluation methods, evaluation criteria, results, and recommendations. Hazardous exposures to toxic substances and/or noise are found to exist for employees in the following forms at the following areas: noise and tricalcium-phosphate dust in the Dylite-Dylene reactor and screening areas, coal dust in the power house, fly ash in the fly ash silo, and benzene (71432) in the styrene laboratory. Data are tabulated for charcoal tube samples, detector tube samples, instantaneous dust samples, sound level measurements, and miscellaneous sampling. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Dust Ear Environmental Monitoring Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Safety Sense Organs

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• Keywords:
  Air-contaminants Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Aromatic-hydrocarbons Benzene Chemical-processing-industry Ethyl Benzene Hazards-Confirmed Noise-control OSHA Region 3 Sound-levels Styrene Toluene Toxic-dusts Volatiles Xylene

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7290107
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; Monaca (PA) ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  26 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Hager, Carolyn ; Kurimo, Robert W. ; Larkin, Robert L. ; Kupel, Richard E. ; Morrison, John
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00025298
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-232729
• 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 72-90-107, 1974 Feb ; :1-26
• CAS Registry Number:
  Styrene (CAS RN 100-42-5) ; Benzene (CAS RN 71-43-2) ; Ethylbenzene (CAS RN 100-41-4) ; Xylene (CAS RN 1330-20-7) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1974
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1084d2a9234a4a2012c60f00061a6ffab92a8ed41041d0feed10c64bdfbb4fd2b2836f014fdec47fdcdb0ccc05c5ef8a33cce8af77eae8a6af3e23a77252a1f9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174247/cdc_174247_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.68 MB ]