Reducing Hazardous Dust Exposure When Dowel Drilling in Concrete

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• Personal Author:
  Echt, Alan S. ; Whalen, John J.
• Description:
  Construction workers may be exposed to hazardous dust containing respirable crystalline silica when using dowel drilling machines to drill horizontal holes in concrete pavement. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found that exposures were reduced using tool-mounted local exhaust ventilation (LEV) and good work practices. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Dust Engineering Occupational Health Quartz Safety Silicon Dioxide Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Concretes Construction-industry Construction-workers Control-technology Dust-control Dust-control-equipment Dusts Engineering-controls Exhaust-ventilation Quartz-dust Respirable-dust Road-construction Silica-dusts Ventilation-systems

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2015200
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046692
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2016-100006
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-200, 2015 Aug; :1-4
• CAS Registry Number:
  Quartz (SiO2) (CAS RN 14808-60-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:887b0a5c4bcd05192a751974bdde69601fc2d639b0580b9c07d80b825a87537eeabf2c9cfe931c49f84e2633c086cac9f0a74bba0818c18f93030a1741977439
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210063/cdc_210063_DS1.pdf
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