An Industrial Hygiene Survey of an Office Building in the Vicinity of the World Trade Center: Assessment of Potential Hazards Following the Collapse of the World Trade Center Buildings

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Hall, Ronald M ^a   Trout, Douglas ^a   Earnest, G Scott ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 BUTOXYETHANOL; 4 METHYL 2 PENTANONE; ASBESTOS; BENZENE; CARBON MONOXIDE; HYDROCARBON; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PROPANOL; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; XYLENE;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BUILDING; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ROOM VENTILATION; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH; NEW YORK CITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2142761660     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620490438802     Document Type: Article

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