Health Hazard Evaluation Report: Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 77-113-461: Southern Bell Telephone Company, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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• Personal Author:
  Belanger, Pierre L. ; Flesch, Jerome P. ; Taft, Richard M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A survey team for NIOSH performed a Health Hazard Evaluation at Southern Bell Telephone Company, Fort Lauderdale, Florida on November 16-17, 1977. It has been determined that employees' exposures to "Quick Fix" were not found to be hazardous under the conditions of use. This determination is based on environmental measurements of airborne contaminants, a review of pertinent literature, observations of employees work practices, and results of a non-directed medical questionnaire. Several solvents (methyl chloroform and trichloroethylene) were monitored for two day during the application of "Quick Fix". The airborne concentrations were within accepted limits of exposure. Furthermore, and analysis of the bulk sample revealed that trichloroethylene was not present in "Quick Fix". Airborne concentrations of free isocyanates (methylene bisphenyl isocyanate and toluene diisocyanate) indicated that these air-borne concentrations were not detected using the prescribed sampling and analytical methods and thus were within the acceptable evaluation criteria.
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Hazard-Unconfirmed Maintenance-repairs Methyl Chloroform Methylene Bisphenyl Isocyanate OSHA Region 4 Personal-protective-equipment Quick Fix Solvent-spraying Toluene Diisocyanate Trichloroethylene
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE77113461
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; 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:
  10 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000592
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-198607
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE 77-113-461, 1978 Feb ; :1-10
• CAS Registry Number:
  1,1,1-Trichloroethane (CAS RN 71-55-6) ; Trichloroethylene (CAS RN 79-01-6)
• Editor(s):
  Morris, Linda
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1f588f5238e90d0b07d471900f1b94f46a518d21b747e441de246a84e3f2deda4f9ccde980cbc6056e19dfd8348dd51a97f7ab66775b66203624d19ca3aa9079
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170980/cdc_170980_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 495.54 KB ]