Industrial hygiene survey at the Martin Marietta Company, The Dalles, Oregon.

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• Personal Author:
  Larsen, Lee B. ; Rivera, Raymond O.
• Description:
  Worker exposures to coal tar pitch volatiles, fluorides, and heat were surveyed from July 10 to 14, 1972, at Martin Marietta Aluminum Company (SIC-3341) in the Dalles, Oregon. The number of employees at the company was not specified. All airborne fluoride concentrations were below 1.4 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/CuM) and all urinary fluoride concentrations were below 8 milligrams per liter. Several samples for benzene soluble material exceeded the threshold limit value of 0.2mg/CuM. Average wet bulb globe temperatures ranged from 77.9 to 84.6 degrees F. No exposure standards were included for fluoride or heat. The authors conclude that workers were exposed to significant amounts of coal tar pitch volatiles. They note that compliance with legal exposure standards should be determined from samples collected by the company and the government agency responsible for compliance enforcement.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Behavior Chemistry Environmental Exposure Herbicides Insecticides Men Mental Disorders Mental Health Metals Nervous System Nervous System Diseases Occupational Health Organophosphates Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Solvents Women Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Coal-tar-pitch Field-Study Health-survey Heat-exposure Industrial-hygiene IWS-38-25; Metal-workers NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Region-10 Standards Worker-health

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DFSCI - Division of Field Studies and Clinical Investigations
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-21
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00105646
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1972 Jul; :1-21
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1972
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3341 - Secondary nonferrous metals - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2a0e5dd49a495e96676f9f4c7546c88f3cb83b8e30481728cac2bcff4e30e333b71022730b191f324202f6e49d103486cfd8549d724decd93d647c0214475746
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/178994/cdc_178994_DS1.pdf
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