This paper presents an analysis of all the available personal sampling data for airborne asbestos across 16 facilities of the U. S. Steel Corporation between 1972 and 2006. This dataset has previously never been publicly shared or analyzed. It represents one of the more complete industrial hygiene datasets from a corporation to be presented in a scientific journal and, due to the similarities in the processes at each mill, it should reflect analogous exposures throughout the steelmaking industry in the United States. One of the benefits of presenting these data is that it also provides insight into where asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) were used in the steel making process. This is just one example of a large firm that released information that had previously remained in file cabinets for decades. We believe that another benefit of publishing this paper is that it may encourage the largest firms in industry to assemble and analyze their industrial hygiene data to benefit the occupational hygiene, medical, and epidemiology communities. This can support future epidemiology studies and improve the design of future industrial hygiene programs.

本文对 1972 年至 2006 年间美国钢铁公司 16 个设施中空气中石棉的所有可用个人采样数据进行了分析。该数据集以前从未公开共享或分析过。它代表了一家公司将在科学期刊上发表的更完整的工业卫生数据集之一，并且由于每个工厂的流程相似，它应该反映整个美国炼钢行业的类似暴露。提供这些数据的好处之一是，它还可以深入了解含石棉材料 (ACM) 在炼钢过程中的使用情况。这只是一家大公司发布了此前在文件柜中保留了数十年的信息的一个例子。我们相信，发表这篇论文的另一个好处是，它可以鼓励工业中最大的公司收集和分析其工业卫生数据，以使职业卫生、医疗和流行病学界受益。这可以支持未来的流行病学研究并改进未来工业卫生计划的设计。