Health status of male steel workers at an electric arc furnace (EAF) in Trentino, Italy

Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
Roberto CappellettiValerio Gennaro

Abstract

The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to determine if the workers of an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF), which recycles scrap, had higher mortality and morbidity due to possible exposure to pollutants at work. EAFs do not run on coke ovens. In EAFs 40 % of the particulate matter (PM) is made up of PM 2.5. The foundry dust contained iron, aluminum, zinc, manganese, lead, chromium, nickel, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins. Mortality study: a cohort of 331 exposed workers (6731 person-years) was studied from 19/03/1979 to 31/12/2009 (mean follow up 20.7 years). The group of exposed workers was compared to the general population and to a small control group of 32 workers from the same company. Morbidity study: rates of exemption from health fee for the seven major diseases of 235 exposed workers were compared to the rates of exemption in the Province of Trento. Mortality study: an excess mortality was found in the exposed workers as compared to the general population (SMR 1.13; 95 % CI: 0.76-1.62; 29 deaths) and to the internal group (RR 2.34; 95 % CI: 0.39-95.7). The mortality rate was increased for all tumours (SMR 1.36; 95 % CI: 0.75-2.29; 14 cases), fo...Continue Reading

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