An Industrial Hygiene Survey of the American Foundry and Machine Company at Salt Lake City, Utah: January 24 - February 3, 1964

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• Alternative Title:
  Utah State Division of Health report of environmental study, American Foundry and Machine Company, 870 South 4th West, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Public Health Service. Division of Occupational Health. Occupational Health Field Station
• Description:
  Worker exposure to free silica (7631869) was determined at the American Foundry and Machine Company (SIC-3362) in Salt Lake City, Utah, on January 9, 1969. The survey was part of a NIOSH health study of the foundry industry in Utah, and was requested by the Utah State Industrial Commission. Personal respirable mass samples of silica dust ranged from 1.3 to 10.7 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/cu m), with free silica percentages ranging from 3 to 45 percent. The corresponding threshold limit values ranged from 1.1 to 2.0mg/cu m. The author recommends that an extensive survey be conducted at this facility at a later date, that local exhaust ventilation be provided for scarfing stations and at welding locations, and that an air supplied hood be furnished to the sand blast operator.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Aerosols Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety
• Keywords:
  Dust-analysis Dust-exposure Field-Study Foundries Foundry-workers Health-survey Industrial-hygiene IWS-40-16f NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Region-8 Silicates Worker-health

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• Series:
  Industry Wide Field Studies
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  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:
  18 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00107393 ; nn:00107434
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1969 Jan; :1-4
• CAS Registry Number:
  Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1964
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3362 - Brass, Bronze, and Copper Foundries - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4f60c244456b6421f54a30d7686dbccc690d88463edf1dea8d4867fe7b0cb6822e41e54456b8e06c48a03e761f29553df68f213acf42c9f6792d93e81dd053bc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179077/cdc_179077_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 847.55 KB ]