Industrial hygiene report: preliminary survey of wood preservative treatment facility at Seaman Timber Company, Inc., Montevallo, Alabama.

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• Personal Author:
  Timbie CY ; Todd AS
• Description:
  The Seaman Timber Company, Inc. (SIC-2491) of Montevallo, Alabama was surveyed on July 26, 1979 to provide information on current and past processes used at the company, to review occupational safety and health procedures, to determine exposure concentrations of creosote during routine wood treatment, to determine the need for comprehensive field studies to evaluate long term health effects associated with pressure treating of wood with creosote and chromated-copper-arsenate (7778418) (CCA), and to collect information for future technical reports. The company employs about 100 workers; eight of these are actively engaged in wood treating. The company had no formal preemployment or periodical medical evaluation program for wood treatment employees but there was an initial employee orientation on good work practices, safety rules, and precautions, and periodic safety meetings. Two area air samples were taken near bundles of wood that had been unloaded from the processing cylinders after the creosote and coal-tar (8007452) treatment, but no valid results were obtained. The authors conclude that inconsistencies in the laboratory procedure, compared with the NIOSH recommendations for evaluating airborne concentrations of creosote, resulted in poor analytical sensitivity, and inaccurate and invalid results.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Asbestos Dust Inorganic Chemicals Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety Staff Development Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Air-sampling; Chemical-exposure Contract-210-78-0060 Field-Study IWS-110-19 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Contract NIOSH-Survey Physiological-effects Region-4 Wood-treatment Woodworkers

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Industry Wide
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:00092788
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1979 Nov; :1-14
• CAS Registry Number:
  Copper arsenate (Cu3(AsO4)2) (CAS RN 7778-41-8) ; Coal tar (CAS RN 8007-45-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• 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-512:42d9116f37aa05a24153869e65c43955165070fc9baf806b1f166043915154b07ef83e75d096e1c21bbe19b4d3106407ff09ae94b1a0f1dc22e0e16d5bfc269e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/178932/cdc_178932_DS1.pdf
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