Results of U.S.P.H.S. survey at Raybestos-Manhattan Marshville, North Carolina.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Workers exposures to asbestos (1332214) were surveyed at Raybestos Manhattan (SIC-3292) in Marshville, North Carolina, in June, 1971. Asbestos fiber concentrations in the fiber preparation, carding, spinning, twisting, winding, weaving, finishing, miscellaneous, and rope, wick, and cord areas were 3.1 to 10.8, 1.2 to 29.5, 0.9, 1.6 to 27.1, 0.6 to 8.1, 0.2 to 10.8, 0.5 to 26.9, 0.3 to 18.5 and 6.4 fibers greater than 5 microns in length per cubic centimeter, respectively.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Asbestos Environmental Health Inorganic Chemicals Irritants Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Asbestos-dust Dust-exposure Fibrous-bodies Field-Study Health-survey Industrial-hygiene IWS-32-18a NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Region-4 Textiles Worker-health

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  1-5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00105828
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1971 Jun; :1-5
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1971
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3292 - Asbestos products - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1242d33d4ab565a9db3d8dadf3f54ef7beabe1fc4c7070adb4f192c20cbdd0cb294f93bf3ed116576997ee6867677adb4c6cc3c21831d9d6257014494cbe71c7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179004/cdc_179004_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 183.66 KB ]