Dry cutting & grinding is risky business

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey. Department of Health. Public Health Services Branch. Consumer, Environmental and Occupational Health Service. Environmental & Occupational Health Surveillance Program
• Description:
  That cloud of dust you see when a worker cuts or grinds concrete, brick, or stone is not just harmless dust ... It contains crystalline silica ... and IT CAN KILL. Most crystalline silica is in the form of quartz. Common sand is almost 100% quartz. Fine particles created by cutting and grinding can get deep into the lungs. Most concrete and masonry products contain large amounts of sand. When you inhale the dust, silica particles scar your lungs, causing a disabling, irreversible, and incurable lung disease called silicosis. The good news is that silicosis is 100% preventable. You can work with silica-containing materials in ways that do not result in exposure to dust. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aluminum Silicates Hazardous Substances Hypersensitivity Lung Men Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Public Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Silicon Compounds Women

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• Keywords:
  Diseases Employee-exposure Employee-health Employees Exposure-levels Grinding-equipment Grinding-mills Hazards Health-hazards Humans Milling-industry Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Public-health Pulmonary-function Pulmonary-system Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiration Respiratory-system-disorders Risk-factors Sensitization Silicates Silicon-compounds Silicosis

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• Publisher:
  New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043738
• Citation:
  Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS), 2006 Jan; :1-4
• CAS Registry Number:
  Quartz (SiO2) (CAS RN 14808-60-7) ; Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040930
• Source Full Name:
  Dry cutting & grinding is risky business
• End Date:
  20060929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a3efd92201873eba58a66599927dbae289fc053070042722506a143b3d8307043b77fdc98d5e35c02572dfccb0efc5d3ab08529a1c5731bb528fdb0bf1c23068
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195559/cdc_195559_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 142.90 KB ]