Preliminary survey of wood preservative production facility at Koppers Company, Inc., Forest Products Group Specialty Wood Chemicals Division, Valparaiso, Indiana.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Timbie, Cynthia Y. ; Todd, Alan S.
• Description:
  The Koppers Company, Incorporated, a chromated copper-arsenate manufacturing facility (SIC-2851) in Valparaiso, Indiana was surveyed on July 24, 1979 to evaluate work practices, exposure controls, past exposures, and medical, industrial hygiene, and safety programs. The facility employs five workers. Two NIOSH sampling methods were used to measure arsenic (7440382), chromium (7440473), and copper (7440508) at two sites for 5 hours at each site. The company provided a comprehensive medical surveillance program, periodic air sampling and exhaust system maintenance, and mandatory protective clothing and showers. Airborne levels recorded were 19.0 and 135.2 micrograms per cubic meter (m3) for copper, 4.2 and 22.2 micrograms/m3 for total chromium, 1.1 and 15.2 micrograms/m3 for hexavalent chromium, and 4.2 and 24.2 micrograms/m3 for arsenic. The authors suggest that arsenic exposure exceeded the OSHA permissible exposure limit of 10 micrograms/m3 averaged over an 8 hour period. The OSHA permissible exposure limits of 1 milligram per cubic meter (mg/m3) averaged over an 8 hour period for copper dust and mists and 0.5mg/m3 for chromic- acid were not exceeded. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Preceptorship Safety Wood
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Survey; Field-Study; IWS-110-17; Region-5; NIOSH-Contract; Contract-210-78-0060; Wood-preserving-manufacturer; Air-sampling; Exposure-limits; Overexposure; Personal-protective-equipment
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; Ohio ; 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
• Pages in Document:
  1-11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00092798
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB80186679
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1980 Feb; :1-11
• CAS Registry Number:
  Arsenic (CAS RN 7440-38-2) ; Chromium (CAS RN 7440-47-3) ; Copper (CAS RN 7440-50-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2851 - Paints and allied products - (SIC)
• Source Full Name:
  Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, NIOSH, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/240943/cdc_240943_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]