Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA #2001-0034-2843: USAirways Aircraft Support Center, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Personal Author:
  Kiefer, Max ; Weber, Angela M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  On October 23, 2000, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a management request for a health hazard evaluation (HHE) at the US Airways aircraft support center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The request asked NIOSH to determine if exposures resulting from a process change involving an industrial cleaner presented a health hazard to workers. Specific areas of concern included the aircraft wheel and brake maintenance departments where the primary industrial cleaner used in these areas had been replaced with a new product. No health complaints were reported in the HHE request, however subsequent information indicated that some employees had reportedly experienced health problems such as irritation and nose bleeds when the cleaner was first introduced. On February 5, 2001, NIOSH researchers conducted a site visit at the US Airways facility. During the site visit, integrated personal air sampling was conducted to evaluate employee exposures to total particulate and sodium metasilicate, the primary active ingredient in the industrial cleaner, and two glycol ethers (dipropylene glycol butyl ether (DPGBE), and tripropylene glycol methyl ether (TPGME)) that were also a component of the cleaner. Samples were collected from workers in the wheel pre-wash, bearing wash, wheel tear down, brake tear down, and the brake cleaning sinks.
• Subjects:
  Aircraft Alkalies Ether Eye Foreign Bodies Glycols Maintenance Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Skin Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Aircraft-parts-and-auxiliary-equipment Aircraft And Parts Aircraft Wheel And Brake Maintenance Caustic Parts Cleaner Cleaning-compounds Ethers Eye-irritants Glycol Ethers Hazards-Unconfirmed Maintenance-workers OSHA Region 4 Particulates Skin-irritants Sodium-compounds Sodium Metasilicate Work-practices

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA200100342843
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; 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:
  27 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Herbert, Nichole ; Lovell, Patricia
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021520
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2002-108243
• 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 2001-0034-2843, 2001 May ; :1-20
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3721 - Aircraft - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:46a0da51ee30c6d433ebed6e867d726161f662001dcf3776b817f40dbc0c223d4bb66d5e069c54b546ee43cc8c0d5f8f8502364cc4a1ea169118b4aba65213b2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170917/cdc_170917_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.11 MB ]