Hygienic evaluation of the effects of vibration and arsenic in miners engaged in extraction of arsenic-containing ore

Hygienic evaluation covered work conditions on 4 gold mines including 3 ones for gold and arsenic and one "arsenic-free". The mines demonstrated similar occupational factors, but differed in arsenic content of the ore extracted and therefore in arsenic concentrations in air of the workplac...

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Published inMeditsina truda i promyshlennaia ekologiia no. 12; p. 25
Main Authors Remizov, Iu A, Tartakovskaia, L Ia, Samokhvalova, G N
Format Journal Article
LanguageRussian
Published Russia (Federation) 1996
Subjects
Air Pollutants, Occupational - toxicity
Arsenic - analysis
Arsenic - toxicity
Arsenic - urine
Hair - chemistry
Humans
Male
Maximum Allowable Concentration
Mining
Occupational Diseases - chemically induced
Occupational Diseases - diagnosis
Occupational Diseases - etiology
Vibration - adverse effects
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Summary:Hygienic evaluation covered work conditions on 4 gold mines including 3 ones for gold and arsenic and one "arsenic-free". The mines demonstrated similar occupational factors, but differed in arsenic content of the ore extracted and therefore in arsenic concentrations in air of the workplaces. Miners engaged into extraction of the arsenic-containing ore, especially those exposed to vibration and arsenic concentrations over the MAC, manifest extensive arsenic accumulation in the hair and excretion with the urine, higher morbidity with transitory disablement, more prevalent vibration disease and mortality with malignancies. Vibration disease in those subject has more severe course, serious vegetative and sensory polyneuropathy, that is believed to result from co-action of vibration and arsenic.
ISSN:1026-9428