HETA #2000-0191-2960: Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), National Firearms Unit (NFU); Altoona, Pennsylvania

Details

• Alternative Title:
  NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA #2000-0191-2960: Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), National Firearms Unit (NFU), Altoona, Pennsylvania
• Personal Author:
  Crouch, Keith G. ; Harney, Joshua M. ; Hayden, Charles S. II ; Kardous, Chucri A. ; Khan, Amir ; King, Bradley S. ; Mickelsen, Leroy ; Tubbs, Randy L. ; Willson, Robert D.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  On March 17, 2000, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a management request for a health hazard evaluation (HHE) at the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) National Firearms Unit (NFU) in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The request resulted in several site visits over the course of more than 2 years to conduct lead and noise exposure assessments during training and qualification rounds at the facility. During these surveys, NIOSH investigators sampled for lead and noise and found excessive levels of both. An inadequate ventilation system and certain design characteristics of the range were found to be contributing factors to the lead exposure. Recommendations were made for ventilation and design improvements, and for noise exposure reduction. Over several site visits conducted at the facility, NIOSH investigators concluded that health hazards existed at the times of the evaluations. The facility has since taken several steps to mitigate these hazards, including implementing of many of the recommendations proposed by the NIOSH investigators. Recommendations in the final interim letter have not yet been implemented due to lack of funding. However, NFU management has expressed a desire to continue working with NIOSH investigators before implementing any new controls should funding become available. The contents of this document present no new information
  
  rather, it is a compilation of the letters and reports already sent individually to INS NFU management over the course of the investigation.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Dust Ear Lead Metals, Heavy Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Sense Organs Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Firing Ranges Carbon Monoxide Hazards-Confirmed Heavy-metals HVAC Lead Lead-compounds Lead-dust Noise-control Noise-exposure Noise-levels OSHA Region 3 Police Protection Shooting Ranges Ventilation-systems

  More +
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA200001912960
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service ; United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-61 ; 67 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Finley, Melissa ; Grote, Ardith A. ; Watts, Shawna
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026708
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-106290
• 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 2000-0191-2960, 2005 May ; :1-61
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Editor(s):
  Galloway, Ellen
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9221 - Police protection - (SIC) ; 922120 - Police Protection - (NAICS)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:caff35d3c7b172684f027f22d709d2592a073c7485b51288d53b9ac66b822751227e93491ebc7383ade4a609d32ddc00d015c065d19f144814d0d6816129d477
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170599/cdc_170599_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.36 MB ]