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y July 14, 1976 <*I o c To: , .< From:* Subject: Industrial Hygiene Mailing List C. Wayne Simpson Materials of OccupationalHealth interest in the Steel Industry The attached material was prepared by the AISI Committee on Industrial Hygiene and forwarded to the Council on Wage and i Price Stability. This material was prepared to assist the council in its assessment of the impact of Federal regula tions on the steel industry. You may find this information to be a useful "shopping list" of materials of possible exposure in steel operations. CWS:kr Attachments cc: J. L. Howard D. P. Klaiber R. D. Tranter ARM 1282 k cnhark ^,,,oHr Jff/A Q&eet^4(9^ 94aiAeiigz6><n, !S`f4. J)(?(?& June 10, 1976 Roy Nierenberg, Esq. Assistant General Counsel Council on Wage and Price Stability New Executive Office Building 726 Jackson Place, N. W. Washington, D. C. 20506 Dear Roy: In accordance with our commitment in our meeting on May 3 and our conversation of today, we are enclosing the following described listing. The list includes those substances among 400 included in the 0SHA Standards Completion Project (SCP) for which the new standards will have impact on the steel industry. We have divided the list into 3 degrees of impact. As you are aware, the standards developed through SCP may or may not change the TWA values, but in most cases establish "an action level" which is 1/2 or less of the TWA level and at which point various actions would be required; e.g., monitoring, medical surveillance, personal protective equipment, etc. Almost all health standards being developed contain provisions for monitoring, reporting, medical surveillance and, in most cases, requirements for personal protective equipment or clothing and hygiene facilities. As stated previously, standards for several of the substances are in process and many are scheduled for release in the next 2 years. We hope the list will be helpful to you and if you have questions or need additional information, please call John Janous or me. VeTy truly yours, JHS:leh Enclosures \4 cc: J. F. Collins J. A. Janous-^" \ .OSHA STANDARDS IMPACT 29 C.F.R. 1910.1000 Z-l, Z-2, Z-3 MATERIALS USED OR EVOLVED IN STEELMAKING 1. Of Substantial Impact - Estimated to at least minimally exceed probable "action level" assignment, requiring routine monitoring, medical examinations, etc. MATERIAL Ammonia Arsenic Asbestos Benzene Calcium Oxide Carbon Monoxide i Chromium Chromic Acid Coal Dust Coal Tar Pitch Volatiles Copper Fluorides Graphite Hydrogen Chloride Hydrogen Cyanide Hydrogen Sulphide Iron Oxide Fume Lead Manganese Mercury .Methyl Ethyl Ketone AREA OF POSSIBLE EXPOSURE - galvanizing lines 7 raw material impurity - bag houses, insulation, welding rod - coke by-products - refractories, sinter oxide, flux - blast furnaces, coke plant - ladle furnace additions - tinning, galvanizing - coal handling - coking, by-products, blast'furnace, BOF relining, roofing, paving, foundry - scrap melting, welding - teeming, HF pickling, mold washes - blast furnaces, BOF, foundries - pickle lines - coke by-products, foundry, blast furnaces, plating lines - blast furnaces, coke plant - furnaces, burning strap Durmng, zinc pigs, patenting, wire drawings, additions furnace additions instrument shop paint shop, cleaning generally ' Methylene Chloride Molybdenum Naptha (coal tar) Naptha!ene Nickel Nitrogen Dioxide . Oil Mist Ozone Petroleum Distillates Phenol Silica Silicates Sodium Hydroxide Stoddard Solvent Sulfur Dioxide Sulfuric Acid Tin Titanium Dioxide Toluene III-Trichloroethane, Methyl Chlorofene Trichloroethylene Xylene Zinc Oxide \ --z2-- - solvent * - ladle addition, grease - coke by-products - coke by-products - furnace additions - welding, nitric acid pickling, diesel exhaust, coke ovens - rolling, cutting - welding, electric motor rooms - solvents, general use - coke plant - refractory - refractory - cleaners, coke by-products - cleaning - blast furnaces, coke plants, fuel combustion - pickling ' - tinning 1ines - welding, furnace addition, painting - paint shop, coke by-products - solvent - solvent - paint shop, coke by-products - burning BRN 1205 OSHA STANDARDS IMPACT 29 C.F.R. 1910.1000 Z-l, 2-2, Z-3 MATERIALS USED OR EVOLVED IN STEELMAKING 2. Minor Impact - Found in some plants, exposure probably will not exceed action level. MATERIAL ' Acrolein Acetyl aldehyde Antimony Arsine Carbon Disulfide Chiorodiphenyl 422 Chi orodiphenyl 542 Ethyl Acetate Ethyl Benzene Formaldehyde Methyl Acetate Methyl acetylene propadiene mixture (MAPP) Methylene Bisphenyl Isocyanate Phosgene Propane Turpentine Vanadium Zirconium AREA OF USE - foundries, diesel exhaust - ladle additions - pickle lines, blast furnaces - coking - electrical maintenance, cleaning transformers - electrical maintenance - paint shop - paint shop - foundry - paint shop - burning - foundry binder -chlorinates^solvent decomposition - fuel - paint shop - coke by-products - furnace addition - foundry RRM 1286 OSHA STANDARDS IMPACT 29 C.F.R. 1910.1000 Z-l, Z-2, Z-3 I MATERIALS USED OR EVOLVED IN STEELMAKING 3,. Improbable Impact - Found at some locations, employee exposure believed to be very minimal. MATERIAL Acetone Barium Butyl Acetate Butyl Alcohol Butyl Glycidyl Ether Carbon Dioxide Chlorine Dioxide O-dichlorobenzene Ethanolamines Ethyl Silicate Hydrazine Lithium Magnesium Oxide Octane Oxalic Acid Phosphoric Acid Pyridine AREA OF USE - cleaner - oxygen plant - water treatment - biocide - paint shop - paint shop - paint shop - water treatment plant - 1D0W9THERM1 - annealing gas treatment - refractories - water treatment - grease - desulfurizing - fuel - foundry binder catalyst ARM 1ZB?