Workplace Solutions: Control of Hazardous Dust During Tuckpointing

Details

• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Heitbrink, William A. ; Collingwood, John ; Whalen, John J.
• Description:
  Construction workers are exposed to hazardous dust when grinding or cutting mortar or cement from between the bricks of old buildings. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) found that exposures could be reduced using tool-mounted local exhaust ventilation and work practices. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  "The principal contributors to this publication were William Heitbrink of the University of Iowa and Scott Collingwood from the University of Utah. John Whalen, under a contract with the U.S. Public Health Service, Division of Federal Occupational Health, served as lead writer/editor." - acknowledgements
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. [4]).
  
  Supersedes DHHS (NIOSH) publication ; no. 2000-113.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Dust Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Quartz Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Silicon Dioxide Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Construction-workers; Construction-industry; Dusts; Exhaust-ventilation; Work-practices; Power-tools; Respirable-dust; Silica-dusts; Quartz-dust; Respiratory-system-disorders; Pulmonary-system-disorders; Masons; Construction-Search
• Source:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2008-126, 2008 Sep; :1-4
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Workplace Solutions
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034421
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2009-100465
• CAS Registry Number:
  Quartz (SiO2) (CAS RN 14808-60-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:45be010797987cc16b15fa4dc78cda72b7be7fcaebe562e43ced2bb1acdf96857fbb6075b23b8208c9000a3c89fb48780dd4a0bc1a6980889e5e39f23d5da331
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5526/cdc_5526_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 303.67 KB ]