Details:

Alternative Title:
Ann Occup Hyg
Personal Author:
Qi, Chaolong ; Echt, Alan ; Murata, Taichi K
Qi, Chaolong ; Echt, Alan ; Murata, Taichi K Less -
Description:
We conducted a laboratory test to characterize dust from cutting Corian(®), a solid-surface composite material, with a circular saw. Air samples were collected using filters and direct-reading instruments in an automatic laboratory testing system. The average mass concentrations of the total and respirable dusts from the filter samples were 4.78±0.01 and 1.52±0.01mg cm(-3), respectively, suggesting about 31.8% mass of the airborne dust from cutting Corian(®) is respirable. Analysis of the metal elements on the filter samples reveals that aluminum hydroxide is likely the dominant component of the airborne dust from cutting Corian(®), with the total airborne and respirable dusts containing 86.0±6.6 and 82.2±4.1% aluminum hydroxide, respectively. The results from the direct-reading instruments confirm that the airborne dust generated from cutting Corian(®) were mainly from the cutting process with very few particles released from the running circular saw alone. The number-based size distribution of the dusts from cutting Corian(®) had a peak for fine particles at 1.05 µm with an average total concentration of 871.9 particles cm(-3), and another peak for ultrafine particles at 11.8nm with an average total concentration of 1.19×10(6) particles cm(-3) The small size and high concentration of the ultrafine particles suggest additional investigation is needed to study their chemical composition and possible contribution to pulmonary effect.
Subjects:
[+]
Air Pollutants, Occupational Aluminum Hydroxide Article Construction Materials Corian® Dust Environmental Monitoring Occupational Exposure Particle Size Pulmonary Fibrosis Solid-surface Composite
Source:
Ann Occup Hyg. 60(5):638-642.
Pubmed ID:
26872962
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4920043
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
[+]
urn:sha256:a62a4b8d6d5508b27f17c17e658cf949a30d31ac83643424cca00a64dff2620b
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40295/cdc_40295_DS1.pdf
File Type:

Supporting Files

• 	NIHMS795928-supplement-Supplementary.docx	docx
  	nihms795928.nxml	bin
  	nihms795928f1a.gif	gif
  	nihms795928f1a.jpg	jpeg
  	nihms795928f1b.gif	gif
  	nihms795928f1b.jpg	jpeg

More +