Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 99-0252-2831: State of Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Des Moines, Iowa

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• Personal Author:
  Burton, Nancy C.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In June 1999, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a confidential employee request for a health hazard evaluation (HHE) of the narcotics evidence holding room at the State Police Division of Narcotics Enforcement facility in Des Moines, Iowa. The HHE requesters expressed concern over employees'' exposures to materials collected from clandestine methamphetamine laboratories and other drug cases that were stored at the facility. They also reported that there were three recently diagnosed cancer cases among narcotics enforcement staff, and several employees had severe headaches which they associated with the workplace. In response, NIOSH personnel conducted a site visit at the office on July 26 and 27, 1999. Area air samples were collected for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), ethyl ether, inorganic acids, and cocaine in the evidence room and surrounding areas. Wipe samples for cocaine were collected in the evidence room. Two samples of debris were gathered from the shelves and examined for fungal contamination.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Fungi Laboratories Law Enforcement Narcotics Occupational Health Safety Solvents Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Clandestine Laboratories Cocaine Evidence Room Hazards-Unconfirmed Inorganic-acids Inorganic Acids Law-enforcement-workers Methamphetamine Organic-compounds Organic-solvents Organic-vapors OSHA Region 7 Policemen Police Protection Solvent-vapors Volatile Organic Compounds

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9902522831
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; OSHA Region 7
• 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:
  21 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Butler, David ; Grote, Ardith A. ; McCLeery, Robert E. ; Renton, Kevin
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021501
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2002-108274
• 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 99-0252-2831 ; 2001 Feb ; :1-15
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9211 - Courts - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7488e3b5c114b57a135e6438b1492e7dd984e0498203c5c9aba8ee94f690144f87ecf726ee6c0ece6aa2a4b87fe4f7e9eef3a2de914de161635b70b642adf02f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170934/cdc_170934_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 223.23 KB ]