Controlling dust from concrete saw cutting

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• Personal Author:
  Shepherd S ; Woskie S
• Description:
  Cutting concrete with gas-powered portable saws is ubiquitous in the construction industry and a source of exposure to hazardous airborne, respirable crystalline silica. Silica damages lungs and causes lung cancer, increases risk for tuberculosis, and has been linked to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other illnesses. In head-to-head tests cutting reinforced concrete pipe, researchers found that wet cutting reduced the respirable silica dust concentration by 85%. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Construction Materials Dust Engineering Lung Lung Diseases Neoplasms Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Silicon Dioxide Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Concretes Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Control-methods Control-technology Cutting-tools Dust-control Dust-control-equipment Dust-exposure Dust-inhalation Engineering-controls Lung-cancer Lung-disease Power-tools Pulmonary-system-disorders Respirable-dust Respiratory-system-disorders Silica-dusts Tools Work-environment Worker-health

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046765
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2013 Dec; :1
• Email:
  Susan_Woskie@uml.edu
• CAS Registry Number:
  Quartz (SiO2) (CAS RN 14808-60-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Controlling dust from concrete saw cutting
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1c634cc04fff039ee3d3644cf0c63e80111332537e2083705cc0c367d8b47e3bc71e439f79f4e0121db2d4e82f82b069c71d6e519e08bbdd54411fe1f4eb1652
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202094/cdc_202094_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 47.61 KB ]