Pulmonary reactions to miscellaneous mineral dusts, man-made mineral fibers, and miscellaneous pneumoconioses.

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• Personal Author:
  Brooks, Stuart M.
• Description:
  A review of occupationally related mineral pneumoconioses is provided for aluminum (569584), antimony (7440360), barium (7440393), cobalt (7440484), iron (7439896), silver (7440224), iron dust mixtures, bakolite, manganese (7439965), titanium (7440326), vanadium (7440622), tin (7440315), tungsten-carbide (12070121), fibrous glass and man made fibers, zirconium (7440677), and rare earths. Pneumoconiosis is defined as the presence of inhaled dust in the lungs and the reaction of nonneoplastic tissue to that dust. The miscellaneous pneumoconioses as a group were estimated by the author to affect a working population of ten million. Problems identifying affected individuals are related to the small number of workers involved in any one operation and chest radiographic alterations not associated with medical disability or symptomology. The author noted that the number of workers exposed to causative agents will continue to increase due to increasing demand for the agents themselves. Each group of causative agents is described with respect to primary sources, manufacturing processes, occupations and industries involved, epidemiology, estimates of population exposed, pathology and clinical description of the pneumoconioses, diagnostic criteria, methods of prevention, and research needs. Separate bibliographies for each category are included.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Airborne-dusts Dust-inhalation Environmental-contamination Occupational-health Pulmonary-system-disorders Worker-health
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Chapter
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  401-458
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00170160
• Citation:
  Occupational respiratory diseases. Merchant, James A., Bochlecke BA, Taylor G, eds. Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 86-102, 1986 Sep; :401-458
• CAS Registry Number:
  Aluminon (CAS RN 569-58-4) ; Antimony (CAS RN 7440-36-0) ; Barium (CAS RN 7440-39-3) ; Cobalt (CAS RN 7440-48-4) ; Iron (CAS RN 7439-89-6) ; Silver (CAS RN 7440-22-4) ; Manganese (CAS RN 7439-96-5) ; Titanium (CAS RN 7440-32-6) ; Vanadium (CAS RN 7440-62-2) ; Tin (CAS RN 7440-31-5) ; Tungsten carbide (WC) (CAS RN 12070-12-1) ; Zirconium (CAS RN 7440-67-7)
• Editor(s):
  Merchant, James A. ; Bochlecke BA ; Taylor G
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1986
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational respiratory diseases
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:baa37ecc13a80ca0d76044dd2a5d2a09a31f8a7bdd40bb269ab4d5f6475aaa597bb8b75106d5e003526172ccc18d1decaf7ceafe11cab4e7003930429a6b057c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179959/cdc_179959_DS1.pdf
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