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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2016 Jul 21;1378(1):5–16. doi: 10.1111/nyas.13148

Table 1.

A short list of occupational settings and other sources of hydrogen sulfide.

Petrochemical refineries of crude oils with sulfur Livestock farmers
Natural gas plants Sewerage plants and sewer workers
Coke production from coal with sulfur Animal manure disposal
Kraft wood pulp production Pipeline maintenance
Tanneries Food processing factories
Sulfur production Production of deuterated water
Hydrogen sulfide gas production and storage Construction industry (e.g., manhole workers,
asphalt use and storage)
Viscose Rayon production Carbon disulfide production
Hydraulic fracking Mixing household chemicals for suicide
Gypsum drywall Carbonyl sulfide by in vivo metabolism

Note: Partially modified from Ref. 9.