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FILE NAME Talc TALC DATE 1949 Apr DOC TALC005 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION IHFA - Industrial Hygiene Survey of Esso Standard Oil Co. - a INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH PA INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE SURVEY of the Baton Rouge Refinery LOUISIANA DIVISION ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY Baton Rouge La February - April 1949 a. EM001605 Table II EXPOSURES TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS JUDGED TO BE WITHIN SAFE LIMITS Operation or Location Substances or Conditions Employee Group | Affected Butyl Rubber Butyl Rubber Finishing Building Methyl chloride in vicinity of reactors and in finishing building Safe usage by reason of process control ventilation and daily air analysis Tale dust at packaging Process and mechanical workers in these areas Packers Butyl Rubber Reactors Alcohol Plant freeze production in Alcohol Area Paracril Plant Aluminum chloride exposure is controlled by wearing respirators Inhalation of acetaldehyde is at present prevented by use of respirators Methyl alcohol exposures are controlled by informed personnel and natural ventilation Acrylonitrile control rooms and in finishing building beyond coagulation pots Light 011 Treating Plant Shell Still Batteries No. 16 and No. 17 No. D. & S. Hydrogen Sulfide Recovery Unit Tetra Ethyl Lead Blending Plant Lead at ground level from aeration in doctor regeneration Hydrogen sulfide exposures slight in receiving houses Leakage of hydrogen sulfide is effectively prevented in the process equipment Tetra ethyl satisfactory control measures are practiced Gasoline anti oxidants contact is unlikely in present mode of handling Process workers in the reactor area A few process workers in alcohol denaturing Process workers and fitters assigned to the area Machinists pro- cess workers except attendants at latex and coagulation pots Process workers at ground level Still operators and helpers at the units Blending plant employees machinists pipefitters and laborers EM001615