Health and Safety Information
Please refer to the Instruction Manual you received for detailed health and safety information concerning your heat treating furnace or industrial oven.
Lucifer Furnaces, Inc. does not use asbestos, mercury or ozone depleting chemicals in the manufacture of our products.
Furnace chambers contain materials, including refractory material, which:
- may be irritating to skin, eyes, and respiratory tract
- is known to cause permanent and irreversible respiratory damage including silicosis and/or cancer when inhaled in significant amounts
- will form cristobalite (crystalline silica) with use at high temperatures (above 1600°F). Respirable crystalline silica has been identified as a known human carcinogen.
Exposure to these materials is high when the chamber is being serviced.
For routine use of furnace, wear a NIOSH certified respirator N95 or higher.
Service Instructions
TURN OFF ALL ELECTRICAL POWER TO FURNACE BEFORE PERFORMING ANY SERVICE.
For service inside chamber, including replacement of heating elements, insulating firebrick, ceramic fiber insulation, mineral wool insulation, and hearth plates. Lucifer Furnaces Inc., in accordance with guidelines from OSHA and the Refractory Ceramic Fibers Coalition, recommends the following procedures:
Personal Protective Equipment
- Use a full-face respirator with P-100 filters.
- Use disposable coveralls, gloves, safety glasses or goggles.
Work Practices
- Spray insulating material to be removed with a water mist to control airborne fibers. Continue to spray material during and after removal.
- Place removed material in plastic bags or covered receptacles as soon as the material is removed. Avoid walking and trafficking over the removed material.
- Remove the material from the work area as soon as possible.
- Use a HEPA-filtered vacuum or wet sweeping method for clean-up.
- Clean personal clothing with HEPA filtered vacuum before leaving the work area.
- Launder work clothes separately.
- Do not use compressed air for clean-up activities.
Engineering Controls
- Restrict access and isolate removal work area from adjacent occupied work areas with barricade tape and/or plastic sheets.
- Ventilate removal area with forced ventilation.
Furnace Start up After Service
The furnace must run through the dry out procedure as outlined in the Instruction Manual after the installation of any new insulating materials and heating elements. The furnace may emit steam, liquids, smoke and odors during the dry out period.
