Steel Producing

Description

Processes include the manufacture of coke, blast furnace operations, and steel making. Steel products include special steels such as galvanized steel and terneplate (steel plated with tin and lead). [Burgess, p. 20-31] See the agent "Coke oven emissions."

Category

Industry

Agents

Hazardous agents associated with this process:

• Aluminum nitride
• Ammonium chloride fume
• Ammonium thiocyanate
• Barium chloride
• Barium
• Bentonite
• Benzo(a)pyrene
• Benzo(b)fluoranthene
• Boric acid
• Cadmium fluoborate
• Calcium carbide
• Calcium cyanamide
• Calcium cyanide
• Calcium fluoride
• Calcium magnesium oxide
• Carbon monoxide
• Cerium
• Chromium
• Coal dusts
• Coal tar
• Coal tar pitch volatiles
• Coke (petroleum), calcined
• Coke oven emissions
• CYANIDES
• Cyanogen
• Diiron monophosphide
• Dimethyl hydrogen phosphite
• Dysprosium
• Ferric sulfate
• Ferrosilicon
• Ferrovanadium dust
• FLUORIDES
• Fluorobenzene
• Hydrogen cyanide
• Hydrogen fluoride
• Hydrogen sulfide
• Hydroxylamine hydrochloride
• Hydroxylamine sulfate
• 8-Hydroxyquinoline
• Iron oxide (FeO)
• Iron oxide (Fe2O3)
• Iron phosphide
• Iron, furnace
• Lead
• Lead(II) chloride
• Manganese
• Manganese dioxide
• Manganese(II) sulfide
• Manganese silicide
• Manganese tetroxide
• Mercuric chloride
• Mill scale (ferrous metal)
• Molybdenum
• Neodymium
• Nickel
• Niobium carbide
• Noise
• Oxygen
• POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
• Potassium cyanide
• Potassium ferricyanide
• Potassium ferrocyanide
• Potassium ferrocyanide trihydrate
• Potassium nitrate
• Propargyl alcohol
• RARE EARTH METALS
• Selenium
• Silica, crystalline
• Sodium cyanide
• Sodium fluoride
• Sodium silicate
• Soot (as found in occupational exposure of chimney sweeps)
• Strong inorganic acid mists
• Strontium carbonate
• Sulfur dioxide
• Technetium
• Tellurium
• Tungsten
• Vanadium
• Vanadium carbide
• Water
• Zinc chloride fume
• Zinc fluoride
• Zinc oxide
• Zinc phosphate
• Zirconium
• Zirconium silicate