Assessing truck driver exposure at the World Trade Center disaster site: Personal and area monitoring for particulate matter and volatile organic compounds during October 2001 and April 2002

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 179-193

  Geyh, Alison S ^a   Chillrud, Steven ^b   Williams, D'Ann L ^a   Herbstman, Julie ^a   Symons, J Morel ^a   Rees, Katherine ^a   Ross, James ^b   Kim, Sung Roul ^a   Lim, Ho Jin ^c   Turpin, Barbara ^c   Breysse, Patrick ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area monitoring; Particles; Personal monitoring; Truck drivers; Volatile organic compounds; World Trade Center

Indexed keywords

1,2,4 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; ASBESTOS; BENZENE; CARBON; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLOROFORM; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHYLBENZENE; STYRENE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; XYLENE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; DISASTER; DRIVER; DUST; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONITOR; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIRCRAFT; ASBESTOS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MOTOR VEHICLES; NEW YORK CITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASONS; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 20144376718     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620590923154     Document Type: Article

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