Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 98–0152–2729: Wolfeboro Public Safety Building, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

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• Personal Author:
  Echt, Alan S. ; Sylvain, David C.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  On March 17, 1998, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a Health Hazard Evaluation request (HHE) from the New Hampshire Department of Labor to conduct an evaluation of diesel exhaust exposure at the Wolfeboro Public Safety Building, in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. The request indicated that Fire and Police personnel were exposed to diesel exhaust from fire apparatus. Asthmatic bronchitis was listed as a health problem resulting from this exposure. On June 23, 1998, NIOSH investigators, accompanied by an industrial hygienist from the New Hampshire Bureau of Health Risk Assessment, conducted an industrial hygiene evaluation at the Wolfeboro Public Safety Building.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Engineering Environmental Health Firefighters Fires Law Enforcement Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Vehicle Emissions Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Carbon Diesel Diesel-exhaust Elemental Carbon Engineering-controls Fire Fighters Fire Protection Health-hazard-evaluation HETA Indoor-air-pollution Indoor-environmental-quality Law-enforcement-personnel Nitrogen-dioxide Nitrogen Dioxide Respiratory-system-disorders

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9801522729
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Hampshire ; OSHA Region 1
• 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:
  24 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Ferrara, Teresa ; Lovell, Patricia
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000534
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-167785
• 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 98-0152-2729, 1999 Mar ; :1-19
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon (CAS RN 7440-44-0) ; Nitrogen dioxide (CAS RN 10102-44-0)
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9224 - Fire protection - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5a328e50843929fe315e4ce16286c6b2f53f82a4e0c9ba74607d7f194e65768b253158142cfa648a06146fe90dade74323f7ede97abfd7f0137569b854caae42
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171008/cdc_171008_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 213.92 KB ]