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

Details

• Personal Author:
  Weidner, Robert B.
• Description:
  Air sampling for asbestos (1332214) dust was conducted by the United States Public Health Service at the Raybestos Manhattan Asbestos Textile Company (SIC-3292) in Charleston, South Carolina, during January, 1971. Airborne concentrations of fibers greater than 5 microns in length per cubic centimeter (f/cc) ranged from 0.1 to 40.9f/cc. Average exposures in the mule spinning, ring spinning, spin doffing, dry twisting, winding, spool winding, winder fixing, and tape weaving areas exceeded the emergency temporary standard for asbestos dust of 5 fibers per milliliter greater than 5 microns in length for an 8 hour time weighted exposure. Forty five samples exceeded the 15 minute concentration limit of 10 fibers per milliliter. [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-32-24c 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:
  11 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00105343
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-122949
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1971 Dec; :1-9
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1972
• 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, 9 pages
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f62ef55e24a13b651b38075a72a882d94ee42b91c656ff2c8d4cd870e5a8f701d8ab089edca94365855a83f66701b754fdc5eb24f85c57b8ff608f4270e305b9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/182887/cdc_182887_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 230.73 KB ]