Hazardous dusts from the fabrication of countertop: a review.

IF 1.4 4区医学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1080/19338244.2022.2105287

W Kyle Mandler, Chaolong Qi, Yong Qian

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Abstract

Artificial countertop materials, including solid surface composites (SSC) and engineered stone (ES) may pose significant pulmonary health risks for workers who manipulate them. These materials have rapidly become popular in the multibillion-dollar countertop industry, rivaling that of natural materials such as granite and marble due to their variety of desirable esthetic qualities and reduced costs. Both SSC and ES consist of a mineral substrate bound together in a polymer matrix. For SSC the mineral is about 70% aluminum trihydrate (ATH) while ES contains up to 95% crystalline silica by weight. Both materials emit airborne dusts when being manipulated with power tools during the fabrication process. Several deaths and dozens of cases of silicosis have been identified worldwide in workers who fabricate ES, while a single case of fatal pulmonary fibrosis has been associated with SCC dust exposure. This review examines the current state of knowledge for both SSC and ES regarding the composition, particle emission characteristics, workplace exposure data, particle constituent toxicity, and possible methods for reducing worker exposure.

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工作台制造过程中产生的有害粉尘:综述。

人造台面材料，包括固体表面复合材料(SSC)和工程石材(ES)，可能对操作它们的工人造成严重的肺部健康风险。这些材料在数十亿美元的台面行业中迅速流行起来，与花岗岩和大理石等天然材料相媲美，因为它们具有各种令人满意的美学品质和降低的成本。SSC和ES都是在聚合物基质中结合在一起的矿物基质。对于SSC，矿物约为70%的三水合铝(ATH)，而ES含有高达95%的晶体二氧化硅(按重量计)。在制造过程中，当使用电动工具操作时，这两种材料都会释放空气中的粉尘。在世界范围内，已经发现了几例死亡和数十例矽肺病病例，而一例致命的肺纤维化与SCC粉尘暴露有关。本文综述了SSC和ES在成分、颗粒排放特征、工作场所暴露数据、颗粒成分毒性以及减少工人暴露的可能方法方面的知识现状。

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Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health 环境科学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

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3.70

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>36 weeks

期刊介绍： Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health , originally founded in 1919 as the Journal of Industrial Hygiene, and perhaps most well-known as the Archives of Environmental Health, reports, integrates, and consolidates the latest research, both nationally and internationally, from fields germane to environmental health, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure assessment, modeling and biostatistics, risk science and biochemistry. Publishing new research based on the most rigorous methods and discussion to put this work in perspective for public health, public policy, and sustainability, the Archives addresses such topics of current concern as health significance of chemical exposure, toxic waste, new and old energy technologies, industrial processes, and the environmental causation of disease such as neurotoxicity, birth defects, cancer, and chronic degenerative diseases. For more than 90 years, this noted journal has provided objective documentation of the effects of environmental agents on human and, in some cases, animal populations and information of practical importance on which decisions are based.