9/11 World Trade Center disaster

New York, NY World Trade Center Disaster and Asbestos Contamination... 

FIGURE 20.13 HRRs for multiple workstation experiments from NIST WTC investigation. (Adapted from Gann, R.G. et al., Reconstruction of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers, NIST NCSTAR 1-5, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster, 2005.)... 

Johnson, S. B., Langlieb, A. M., Teret, S. R, Gross, R., Schwab, M., Massa, J., et al. (2005). Rethinking first response Effects of the clean up and recovery effort on workers at the World Trade Center disaster site. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 47(4), 386-391. 

Figure 14.1 September 11 collage of World Trade Center disaster.

Following the explosion at the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11, 2001, various public health concerns arose regarding the air quality. Researchers believe that the explosion may account for adverse health effects in the workers and residents in the environment around the WTC. As a result, researchers from Johns Hopkins University, New York University, and Columbia University have monitored truck drivers exposed to the dust, fires, and air pollutants in the WTC aftermath. Phase I focused on the exposure of truck drivers from the disaster site, and Phase 11 focused on the respiratory health of the workers at the disaster site. Interviews and lung function tests were conducted to evaluate changes in lung function or symptoms (Community Update, 2002). Current research is under way addressing the aftereffects of exposure to dust in the air from the World Trade Center disaster. 

A. Particulate PAH Release in the World Trade Center Disaster... 

A.S., Levin, S., Perera, F., Rappaport, S.M., Small, C. NIEHS World Trade Center Working Group (2004). Health and environmental consequences of the World Trade Center disaster. Environ. Health Perspect. 112 731-9. 

Millette J. R., Boltin R., Few P., and Turner W., Jr. (2002) Microscopical studies of world trade center disaster dust particles. Microscope 50, 29—35. 

Thurston G. D., Cohen M., Maciejczyk P., Cohen B., Kendall M., Heikkinen M., Lippmann M., Schuetz L., Costa M., and Chen L. (2002) Characterization of World Trade Center disaster airborne and settled particulate matter exposures. American Public Health Association 2002 Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Programs, 51104. http //apha.confex.com/ apha/13 Oam/techprogram/ meeting l 30am.htm... 

The Internet Resources section of the TEEIIP Website covers topics such as Arsenic and Human Health, Biological Warfare, Chemical Warfare, Children s Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, September 11th World Trade Center Disaster Lingering Airborne Hazards, and Pesticides Used for West Nile Virus Control. For each topic, TEHIP provides numerous links to a variety of related Websites and other electronic resources. 

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) has been assuming an increasingly important role in forensic DNA identification. In the World Trade Center disaster, the materials collected at the site were trucked and barged to the Fresh Kills Landfill in the center of Staten Island. Human remains were then segregated and used to obtain DNA evidence. Capillary electrophoresis was often the tool of choice in the identification process. CE is particularly useful when only small amounts of sample are available and when samples may have degraded with time. CE has been used to identify DNA in bone, blood, semen, saliva, and hair. 

We found an apparent association between maternal exposure to the World Trade Center disaster and intra-uterine growth retardation, suggesting that this event had a detrimental impact on exposed pregnancies. .. Possible long-term effects on infant development are unclear and will require continuing follow-up.1... 

Emergency Response Following the September 11, 2001, Attack on the World Trade Center. Disaster Research Center, Preliminary Papers, Nr. 329. 

Herbert R, Moline J, Skloot G, et al. The World Trade Center disaster and health of workers five year assessment of a unique medical screening program. Environ Health Perspect 2006 114 1853-1858. 

Skloot G, Goldman M, Fischler D, et al. Respiratory symptoms and physiologic assessment of ironworkers at the World Trade Center disaster site. Chest 2004 25 1248-1255. 

Friedman S, Cone J, Eros-Samyai M, et al. Clinical guidelines for adults exposed to World Trade Center Disaster (Respiratory and Mental Health). City Health Information. New York NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, September 2006. 

Wagner VL, Radigan MS, Roohan PJ, et al. Asthma in Medicaid managed care enrollees residing in New York City results from a post-World Trade Center disaster survey. J Urban Health 2005 82 76-89. 

NIOSH takes a whopping 49 million slash in spending. According to American Industrial Hygiene Association Government Affairs Director Aaron Trippler, sources tell him most of the 49 million relates to NIOSH s work regarding the World Trade Center disaster. NIOSH does take the same two percent hit all other fed agencies absorb. 

The recovery phase and cleanup at the World Trade Center disaster site comes to an end. For more than 8 months, 3 million work hours were logged on a worksite like no other, yet only 35 workers missed workdays due to injury and no more lives were lost to work. 

September 11 Terrorists linked to al-Qaeda destroy the World Trade Center in New York and damage the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., killing about 2,800 people. Although no guns were used in hijacking the airliners used in the attack, the disaster will be used both to justify and oppose new gun control measures. 

Historically, nurses have responded quickly during public health emergencies. The events following 9/11 provide a case in point. Hospitals in and around New York City mobilized disaster teams, ready to receive casualties. In New York City, nurses saw the World Trade Center collapse and immediately reported to work (New York State Nurses Association, 2002). Around the state and in neighboring states nurses mobilized to receive casualties. This response was, in part, the routine disaster plan of every hospital in the New York City region, but above and beyond disaster plans, nurses went to work. Within hours the New York State Nurses Association was fielding calls from nurses across the country volunteering to help out in any way they could. 

Following the experiences of 9/11 and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it was clear that children can be at substantial risk during—and following—major disasters. Several large schools were in the immediate vicinity of the World Trade Centers in New York City. A near... 

The attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11, 2001 caused the largest acute environmental disaster in the history of New York City (Lioy et al, 2002). As a result of this terrorist attack, combustion of more than 90,000... 

Ammonium nitrate is the most important fertilizer in the world (see p. 96). It ranked fifteenth among the industrial chemicals produced in the United States in 1995 (8 million tons). Unfortunately, it is also a powerful explosive. In 1 947 an explosion occurred aboard a ship being loaded with the fertilizer in Texas. The fertilizer was in paper bags and apparently blew up after sailors tried to stop a fire in the ship s hold by closing a hatch, thereby creating the compression and heat necessary for an explosion. More than six hundred people died as a result of the accident. More recent disasters involving ammonium nitrate took place at the World Trade Center in New York City in 1993 and at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. 

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