Results of U.S.P.H.S. Survey: Raybestos-Manhattan Asbestos Textile Plant: Charleston, South Carolina

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• Personal Author:
  Sundin, David S.
• Description:
  Personal air sampling for asbestos (1332214) was conducted by the United States Public Health Service at the Raybestos Manhattan Company's Asbestos Textile Company (SIC-3292) in Charleston, South Carolina, during May, 1972. General area samples contained 0.2 to 26.2 fibers greater than 5 micrometers in length per cubic centimeter (f/cc). Several areas of the facility has samples that exceeded the United States Department of Labor standard for airborne asbestos dust of 5f/cc. Carding area has an average asbestos concentration of 10.2 fibers per milliliter (f/ml), while the average concentration near the foster winder operation was 10f/ml. Other areas that exceeded the exposure standard were the blender operation, ring spinner, mule spinner, and spooler. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asbestos Dust Environmental Monitoring Health Surveys Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Textile Industry Workplace
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Asbestos-dust Dust-analysis Dust-exposure Field-Study Health-survey IWS-32-24d NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Region-4 Sampling-methods Textiles Worker-health Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Industry Wide Field Studies
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 4 ; South Carolina
• 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:
  12 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00105342
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-239741
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1972 Dec; :1-8
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1973
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3292 - Asbestos products - (SIC)
• Source Full Name:
  Industrial Hygiene Section, Industry-wide Studies Branch, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies, NIOSH, Cincinnati, Ohio, 8 pages
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f7528884a7b7a8a4bbf9efc68d09fea516c9a261321e35a0a23e292682ceb918059d48167ccb67e8d2bb5527fa3d4278a8fc04b363f324eeefd8ad74af46559f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/182886/cdc_182886_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 295.27 KB ]