HETA 2002-0340 [Final Letter to Allison Stock, re: Lake Norman, North Carolina, Raft Off event]

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• Personal Author:
  McCammon, Jane B.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  On July 8th, 2002, the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) requested technical assistance from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in conducting an investigation of carbon monoxide (CO) exposures among recreational boaters participating in the "Raft Off" event to be held on July 27th at Lake Norman in North Carolina. NIOSH responded to the request by measuring CO concentrations on boats during this event, assisting NCEH and the North Carolina Department of Health with measurements of CO concentrations in exhaled breath among lake visitors that either participated in the event or in other recreational activities. As NCEH is responsible for analysis and reporting of the data from the exhaled breath analyses, the purpose of this letter is to transmit the results of airborne CO measurements. Data presented in this letter provide snapshots of CO concentrations outside (and in one case inside) of boats of various types during a recreational boating day. The "raft off" is not a typical boating activity, and it is difficult to say if the exposures of participants during the event are representative. Measurements of CO on boats during this event and on other waterbodies confirmed again that rafting of boats with operating side-exhausted generators presents a significant risk of exposure to high concentrations of CO for boat occupants. Based on these potential exposures and the severity of the possible consequences of these exposures, we recommend that boat operators immediately deactivate all internal combustion engines as quickly as possible when rafting up in the manner described here.
• Subjects:
  Engineering Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Poisoning Safety Ships Vehicle Emissions
• Keywords:
  Boat-manufacturing-industry Combustion-engines Combustion-gases Combustion-products Control-technology Engineering-controls Equipment-design Exhaust-gases Exhaust-systems Hazard-Confirmed OSHA Region 4 Poison-gases Toxic-gases

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA20020340
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; Norman, Lake (NC) ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-14
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030128
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 2002-0340, 2002 Oct ; :1-14
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:054e4556fba58a68bbd631dbb3830870fbd61d05490da03a36d44f8608e3fd8787c8f7b1f869808c2e9b68782881090f2d6ec03e73afdb399f69f18a556bcdd9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170566/cdc_170566_DS1.pdf
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