Results of air samples at World Bestos Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. in New Castle, Indiana.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Air sampling for asbestos (1332214) was conducted at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (SIC-3011) in New Castle, Indiana, in January, 1969. Samples were taken with an impinger and a membrane filter. Breathing zone air samples taken with an impinger ranged from 0.4 million particles per cubic foot (mppcf) for a cutler operator to 3.9mppcf in the mixing operations. General air impinger samples ranged from 0.5mppcf near a grinder, to 3.4mppcf in the mixing area. Personal membrane filter air samples ranged from less than 0.1 fiber greater than 5 microns in length per cubic centimeter (f/cc) for several worksites to 16.6f/cc for one perform operator. Breathing zone membrane filter samples ranged from 0.3f/cc near a block cure operator to 13.7f/cc for a cradle saw operator. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asbestos Dust Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Survey; Field-Study; IWS-32-35a; Region-5; Asbestos-dust; Air-sampling; Impingers; Membrane-filters; Breathing-zone; Work-operations; Power-tools
• Series:
  Industry Wide Field Studies
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  1-3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00106149
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1969 Jan; :1-3
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1969
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3011 - Tires and inner tubes - (SIC)
• Source Full Name:
  Field Studies Branch, Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH, 3 pages
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/233656/cdc_233656_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]