Industrial hygiene report: preliminary survey of wood preservative treatment facility at Missouri Wood Treating Company, Raymondsville, Missouri.

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• Personal Author:
  Timbie CY ; Todd AS
• Description:
  The Missouri Wood Treating Company (SIC-2491) of Raymondsville, Missouri was surveyed on July 11, 1979 to provide information on the company's current and past process methods, review occupational safety and health procedures, determine exposure concentrations of pentachlorophenol (87865) (PCP) during routine treatment processes, assess air sampling methods, and collect information for future criteria documentation or technical reports on the wood preservative industry. Six employees had potential routine exposure to the PCP in light oil which is used in a vacuum impregnation process to preserve soft and hard wood lumber. The company had no formal medical surveillance, industrial hygiene, or safety program for its employees at the time of the survey. Safety equipment was limited primarily to leather gloves used for handling treated lumber. Company management reported no history of medical problems arising from the work process. Area air monitoring performed with the NIOSH impinger method indicated airborne PCP concentrations of 0.13 to absorption method indicated that all PCP concentrations were below provided significantly different results, which suggested a poor correlation between procedures. However, too few samples were collected to evaluate the difference adequately.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution Dust Occupational Health Safety Silicon Dioxide Workplace
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Analytical-methods Chemical-exposure Contract-210-78-0060 Exposure-limits Field-Study Industrial-hygiene IWS-110-16 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Contract NIOSH-Survey Preserving Region-7 Wood

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Industry Wide
• Place as Subject:
  Missouri ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; 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:
  1-14
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00092787
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1979 Sep; :1-14
• CAS Registry Number:
  Pentachlorophenol (CAS RN 87-86-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2491 - Wood preserving - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0d4d2263c74f67734050af481605866baa8b80402d7e871e36d9af5daf4044d8754887c3c7f80bd45b28120010a3e8189579529ec3f823fe357effd326f56ed8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/178931/cdc_178931_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 458.22 KB ]