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Health Hazard Evaluation Report HETA 84-284-1701, Granite City Steel, Granite City, Illinois.


PB87105581

Publication Date 1986
Personal Author Almaguer, D.; Orris, P.
Page Count 21
Abstract The International Chemical Workers Union requested an evaluation regarding potential employee exposures to a tar like substance added to incoming coal. Bulk analysis of the material showed benzene/soluble coal tar pitch volatiles and naphthalene (91203), phenanthrene (85018), fluoranthene (206440), pyrene (129000), ben(a)anthracene (56553), chrysene (281019), benzo(e)pyrene (192972), benzo(a)pyrene (50328), and benz(g,h,i)perylene (191242). Personal air sampling showed that five of eight samples collected for benzene/solubles had concentrations of 88 to 141 micrograms/cubic meter (mg/m3). The total particulate fraction collected from coal dust in the basement of the pulverizer building contained 1.6 percent quartz (14808607). Respirable coal dust in personal samples ranged from 0.14 to 1.52 mg/m3. No cases of skin or respiratory cancer were reported among these workers. The authors recommend that coal tar sludge waste product be disposed of according to EPA regulations.
Keywords
  • Environmental surveys
  • Industrial medicine
  • Exposure
  • Toxicity
  • Inspection
  • Hazardous materials
  • Aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons
  • Materials handling
  • Air pollution
  • Toxic substances
  • Occupational safety and health
  • Coal tar
  • SIC 3312
Source Agency
  • Centers for Disease Control Bureau of Laboratories
  • 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 National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Document Type Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number 198703
Health Hazard Evaluation Report HETA 84-284-1701, Granite City Steel, Granite City, Illinois.
Health Hazard Evaluation Report HETA 84-284-1701, Granite City Steel, Granite City, Illinois.
PB87105581

  • Environmental surveys
  • Industrial medicine
  • Exposure
  • Toxicity
  • Inspection
  • Hazardous materials
  • Aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons
  • Materials handling
  • Air pollution
  • Toxic substances
  • Occupational safety and health
  • Coal tar
  • SIC 3312
  • Centers for Disease Control Bureau of Laboratories
  • 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
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