Quantitative determination of trucking industry workers' exposures to diesel exhaust particles

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• Personal Author:
  Blade, Leo M. ; Butler J ; Clapp, David E. ; Hornung, Richard W. ; Marlow, David A. ; Scheutzle D ; Steenland, Kyle ; Zaebst, Dennis D.
• Description:
  Exposures to diesel aerosol were measured among road drivers, local drivers, dock workers, and mechanics as part of a case/control mortality study in the trucking industry. Laboratory and field studies indicated that the elemental carbon content of the particles was a useful and practical marker of exposure to vehicular diesel exhaust. A thermal optical analysis technique was used to determine the concentration of elemental carbon in the filter samples. Overall the geometric mean exposures to submicrometer sized elemental carbon ranged from 3.8 micrograms/cubic meter (microg/m3) in road drivers to 13.8microg/m3 in dock workers. Geometric mean background area concentrations in the same regions where the workers were sampled were 2.5microg/m3 on major highways and 1.1microg/m3 in residential areas. The results indicated that the exposures to dock workers and mechanics were significantly higher than background levels and were significantly higher than exposures in the local and road drivers. The exposure of the truck drivers was not distinguishable from background concentrations on the highways, but was significantly higher than background concentrations in residential areas. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aerosols Air Pollutants, Occupational Automobiles Dust Epidemiology Mortality Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Vehicle Emissions
• Keywords:
  Airborne-dusts Airborne-particles Automotive-emissions Automotive-exhausts Diesel-emissions Diesel-exhausts Mortality-data NIOSH-Author
• ISSN:
  0002-8894
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Michigan ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• 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
• Volume:
  52
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00204885
• Citation:
  Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 1991 Dec; 52(12):529-541
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:80bb69d4648d9e8d54297bc975b2163e1fe68ba88bff808264e57f70af3d719dddba79bd7e3c729668be58ac9ef3060374c22ab03f2979d655079ffbe8b7b24b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/205446/cdc_205446_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.38 MB ]