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Mining Surveillance Study of Coal Preparation and Related Laboratory Float-Sink Operations.


PB84182831

Publication Date 1983
Page Count 166
Abstract A survey of techniques used to control occupational exposures to various trace metals, frothing agents, and organic solvents at coal preparation sites and laboratories was conducted at the EAL Corporation (SIC-1211) in Richmond, California, Carbon County, Utah, Jefferson County, Alabama, and Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1981. The laboratories were located at Clarksburg and Wheeling, West Virginia. The coal preparation relied principally on natural ventilation and work practices to control employee exposure. The laboratories used ventilation and local exhaust systems as well as work practices to reduce the concentration of contaminants. Analysis of environmental and breathing zone samples at the coal preparation facilities showed that the concentration of trace metals and frothing agents were controlled to below acceptable limits. Analyses at the laboratories showed similar results except for ethylene-dibromide (106934) (EDB). The authors recommend that a less hazardous solvent be substituted for EDB.
Keywords
  • Environmental surveys
  • Industrial medicine
  • Coal preparation
  • Air pollution control
  • Exposure
  • Toxicity
  • Inspection
  • Hazardous materials
  • Desulfurization
  • Froth flotation
  • Solvents
  • Bromine organic compounds
  • Laboratories
  • Industrial plants
  • Ventilation
  • Flotation
  • Metals
  • Trace elements
  • Indoor air pollution
  • Toxic substances
  • Occupational safety and health
  • Air pollution abatement
  • SIC 1211
  • EDB
  • Ethane/dibromo
  • Ethylene dibromide
  • CAS 106-93-4
Source Agency
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NTIS Subject Category
  • 57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine
  • 57Y - Toxicology
  • 94D - Job Environment
  • 68G - Environmental Health & Safety
  • 68A - Air Pollution & Control
Corporate Authors EAL Corp., Richmond, CA.; National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV.
Document Type Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number 198415
Contract Number
  • PHS-NIOSH-210-80-0027
Mining Surveillance Study of Coal Preparation and Related Laboratory Float-Sink Operations.
Mining Surveillance Study of Coal Preparation and Related Laboratory Float-Sink Operations.
PB84182831

  • Environmental surveys
  • Industrial medicine
  • Coal preparation
  • Air pollution control
  • Exposure
  • Toxicity
  • Inspection
  • Hazardous materials
  • Desulfurization
  • Froth flotation
  • Solvents
  • Bromine organic compounds
  • Laboratories
  • Industrial plants
  • Ventilation
  • Flotation
  • Metals
  • Trace elements
  • Indoor air pollution
  • Toxic substances
  • Occupational safety and health
  • Air pollution abatement
  • SIC 1211
  • EDB
  • Ethane/dibromo
  • Ethylene dibromide
  • CAS 106-93-4
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  • 57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine
  • 57Y - Toxicology
  • 94D - Job Environment
  • 68G - Environmental Health & Safety
  • 68A - Air Pollution & Control
  • PHS-NIOSH-210-80-0027
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