Report of visit to Fluor Engineers and Constructors, Inc., WESCO Project Group, Irvine, California.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Fluor Engineers and Constructors, Inc. was the prime contractor for constructing a coal gasification and liquefaction facility for the WESCO group, in New Mexico. This report discussed a meeting which occurred regarding the WESCO project. Most of the operation for the facility was to be controlled from a centralized control room located across the road opposite the gasification unit. It was anticipated that the gasification facility would employ about 600 workers, with about 400 additional workers employed in mining, transportation and preparation of coal. The design of the coal handling operation was described including coal preparation, coal feeding, coal lock, gasifier, ash lockhoppers, crude gas quench system, carbon-monoxide shift conversion, gas cooling, gas purification, methanation, gas liquor separation, phenosolvan, and sulfur control. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Coal Coal Mining Dust Hazardous Substances Mining Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Contract; Contract-210-76-0171; Coal-workers; Toxic-gases; Coal-products; Dust-inhalation; Airborne-dusts; Coal-dust; Safety-practices
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Final Contract Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; New Mexico ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 6
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00197339
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91174029
• Citation:
  Enviro Control, Inc., Rockville, Maryland 1977 Dec; :1-15
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Enviro Control, Inc., Rockville, Maryland
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/243041/cdc_243041_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]