Beryllium contamination inside vehicles of machine shop workers

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 223-230

  Sanderson, Wayne T ^a   Henneberger, Paul K ^a   Martyny, John ^b   Ellis, Kimberly ^c   Mroz, Margaret M ^d   Newman, Lee S ^d,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b Tri County Health Department Colorado   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beryllium; Machinists; Surface beryllium contamination; Take home exposure

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CAR; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG DISEASE; MINERAL DUST; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; BERYLLIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0032996648     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/104732299302990     Document Type: Article

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