Occupational health assessment status and requirements for direct and indirect coal liquefaction.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A NIOSH assessment of the occupational health status of workers in the direct and indirect coal liquefaction industry (SIC-1321) is presented. The technological status of this industry, including generic characteristics of liquefaction technology, commercial application, and government sponsored programs and technology is reviewed. Potentially hazardous substances in coal liquefaction, including sulfur, ammonia, phenols and tar acids, tars, metal carbonyls and organic nitrogen, are characterized. Occupational health related studies, including technology specific investigations, epidemiological and toxicological studies, and studies on industrial constituents and surrogate materials are reviewed. Industrial hygiene characterizations are also considered. Occupational health assessment requirements regarding characterization needs, area, personal, and body-burden characterization, research requirement in occupational health effects, and the development of medical surveillance protocols are described.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal-oil Coal-processing Control-methods Health-surveys Industrial-hygiene; Industrial-processes Worker-health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Virginia ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-74
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00109433
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1980 Sep; :1-74
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  1321 - Natural gas liquids - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:873db4f8f59942ddb4d8d4e50aca13c5c1dd929dae4a7f070596b554de29d1c07b9c7247c16c19b3d1d5b85ebd8c5ee7bdeffb43378c83d510fb56dfe1a3cf44
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179087/cdc_179087_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.60 MB ]