On Feb. 23, 2009, a federal appeals court resolved the final challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Hexavalent Chromium (CrVI) Standard that was promulgated in ...

Table 1. Summary of Sampling and Analytical Methods for Airborne Hexavalent Chromium (NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods, Fourth Edition. OSHA Method ID-215, Hexavalent Chromium in Workplace ...

For the past 10 years, environmental engineers at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command have been working to reduce and eliminate the use of hexavalent chromium in aviation maintenance.

One week before OSHA was set to issue a new standard on acceptable workplace levels of chromium, a new study showed the chromium industry kept data from the federal government regarding health risks ...

In the unlikely case that all the chromium detected during October air monitoring near Bullseye Glass was hexavalent chromium, the nearby cancer risk could be as high as 1 case in every 1,000 ...

But hexavalent chromium—a highly hazardous substance emitted by chrome-plating businesses—is 500 times more carcinogenic than diesel exhaust, putting it in the cross hair of regulators for ...

Tesla was fined twice for a total of $7,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing four workers to hexavalent chromium without proper ... OSHA’s ITA Summary Data.

Recent tests found hexavalent chromium, a.k.a. chromium-6, in the drinking water of 31 of 35 cities tested, according to a statement issued by the Environmental Working Group, the Washingon, D.C ...

Exposure to high levels of hexavalent chromium is linked to increased rates of lung cancer. Climate. A known carcinogen is showing up in wildfire ash, and researchers are worried.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Spirit AeroSystems for exposing employees to hexavalent chromium. The agency found six violations that led to just over $193,000 in penalties .

The following summarizes key provisions of the Hexavalent Chromium (CrVI) standards potentially affecting the selection and use of respiratory protection for CrVI exposures in the workplace. Where ...