Walk-Through Survey: Pure Carbon Company: St. Mary's, Pennsylvania

Details

• Personal Author:
  Greife, Alice L.
• Description:
  A walk through survey was conducted at the Pure Carbon Company (SIC- 3624), St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, to determine whether this facility would be suitable for inclusion in a larger study of the carbon products industry. At this location mechanical carbon products were produced such as rings, seals, and bearings from the basic raw materials or calcined petroleum coke and coal tar pitch. Air samples were collected and analyzed for 17 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), the highest concentrations of which were found in the baking area. It was not possible to identify the source of these PAHs in this area as 16 of the 17 analyzed for are common to both coal tar pitch and molding flour bulk samples. Benzene solubles detected in the mixing and baking areas ranged from 0.05 to persons in three workshifts. Each employee underwent a preemployment physical. A relocation program was now underway which, when completed, would significantly reduce employee exposure to coal tar pitch volatiles. The author concludes that this facility is not suitable for inclusion, since petroleum pitch is not used. The author recommends that all cleanup processes in the pressing or molding areas of this facility be performed using a vacuum system. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Coal Dust Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Particulate Matter Petroleum Preceptorship Safety
• Keywords:
  Airborne-dusts Coal-products Dust-control Field-Study IWS-142-10 Machine-shop-workers NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Petroleum-products Region-3
• Series:
  Industry Wide Field Studies
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  22 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Ward, Elizabeth M.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00180415
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB88-236906
• Citation:
  NIOSH :1-14
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3624 - Carbon and graphite products - (SIC)
• Source Full Name:
  Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cincinnati, Ohio, Report No. IWS-142-10, 14 pages, 10 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ac03515e88029c74a7885384c1ccc9959408b0dc0cd98a3b8d5d7445857f65abcd675eb76b8c509a43830c90eaeb81dcc76b53c9f74d9a9d08475a1052c2936a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/182897/cdc_182897_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 552.82 KB ]