Industrial hygiene survey at Reynolds Metals, Listerhill Reduction Plant, in Sheffield, Alabama.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Shjuler PJ
• Description:
  Worker exposures to dust, coal-tar-pitch (65996932) volatiles, fluorides, carbon-monoxide (630080), sulfur-dioxide (7446095), hydrogen-fluoride (7664393) and ammonia (7664417) were surveyed at Reynolds Metals (SIC-3334) in Sheffield, Alabama from February 12 to 16, 1973. The factory employed 1100 persons, a medical director and 6 nurses. Pre-employment examinations were given and the factory had industrial hygiene and safety programs and committees. Personal and stationary samples were collected for total dust and coal-tar- pitch volatiles, fluorides, carbon-monoxide, sulfur-dioxide and ammonia. Concentrations of total airborne dust, the benzene soluble fraction of coal-tar-pitch volatiles, particulate fluorides, gaseous fluorides, sulfur-dioxide, hydrogen-fluoride, ammonia, carbon- monoxide and noise ranged from 1.7 to 61.8 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/Cu m), from 1.1 to 60.0mg/Cu m, from 0.014 to 0.173mg/Cu m, from 0.021 to 0.95mg/Cu m, from 1 to 2 parts per million (ppm), not detected, from 12 to 50ppm, from 5 to 70ppm and from 65 to 108 decibels, respectively. The author concludes that excessive exposures to total airborne dust and to the benzene soluble fraction of coal-tar-pitch volatiles occurred in the potroom. He recommends respiratory protection for affected workers, engineering controls to reduce concentrations of coal-tar-pitch volatiles, and hearing protection devices for workers exposed to excessive noise. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no pdf
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Aluminum Compounds Metal Workers Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Survey; Field-Study; Aluminum-foundries; Region-4; Workplace-studies; Air-contamination; Noise-pollution; Occupational-health-programs; Control-methods; IWS-38-16a
• Series:
  Industry Wide Field Studies
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DFSCI - Division of Field Studies and Clinical Investigations
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-60
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00106225
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81224735
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1973 May; :1-60
• CAS Registry Number:
  Ammonia (CAS RN 7664-41-7) ; Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Hydrofluoric acid (CAS RN 7664-39-3) ; Pitch, coal tar, high-temp. (CAS RN 65996-93-2) ; Sulfur dioxide (CAS RN 7446-09-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1973
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3334 - Primary aluminum - (SIC)
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, Environmental Investigations Branch, Division of Field Studies and Clinical Investigations, 60 pages, 3 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/233590/cdc_233590_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]