Preliminary report result of air samples at H. K. Porter Company, Middletown, Connecticut.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Worker exposures to asbestos (1332214) were surveyed in April, 1968, at H.K. Porter Company in Middletown, Connecticut. Personal breathing zone samples in the mixing, coating and extruding, forming, hot pressing, grinding, and sanding, cutting, and drilling, inspecting, and packing, and miscellaneous operations, contained 0.2 to 22.4 million particles per cubic foot (mppcf), and general area air samples in the hot press and grinding operations contained 0.2 to 4.4mppcf.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Asbestos-dust Dust-analysis Dust-exposure Field-Study Health-survey Industrial-hygiene IWS-32-46 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Region-1 Sampling Worker-health

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Industry Wide
• Place as Subject:
  Connecticut ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 1 ; 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:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00105993
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, IWS 32-46, 1968 Apr; :1-2
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1968
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:84e596986175517caec82ae0e0a0bb480d18888d86a7d3ad1939909a9a55cbd5fecbf62b0571b8b427a88e5416403fa62c990bb5c19f2ece8bb15fccbdb763df
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179011/cdc_179011_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 64.63 KB ]