Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 98-0300-2723: Dollar General Store, Prestonsburg, Kentucky

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• Personal Author:
  Kiefer, Max
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a confidential employee request, a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) investigator conducted a site visit at the Dollar General Store in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, on September 23-24, 1998. The request was submitted after referral from the Kentucky Labor Cabinet, Department of Occupational Health and Safety. The request asked NIOSH to determine if health problems experienced by some store employees were related to their work environment. Specific health complaints listed on the request included headache, nausea, dizziness, itching eyes, runny nose, shortness of breath, and diarrhea.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Digestive System Diseases Environmental Health Occupational Health Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Ceiling Tile Dirty Sock Syndrome Health-hazard-evaluation HETA IAQ IEQ Indoor-air-pollution Indoor-environmental-quality Indoor Air Quality Nausea Odors SIC 5331 Variety Stores Vomit-like Odor

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9803002723
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; 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:
  26 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Brown, Shantel ; Grote, Ardith A. ; Matthews, Elaine
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000526
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-167728
• 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 98-0300-2723, 1999 Feb ; :1-25
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  5311 - Department stores - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:25d0ff2cda88be6c86e7a0ae8b612e1cbc7042d41db3a737652564a1911c07745b85304d20c70d51e3c283a3cd777be83298f53604be14030952896775c67d78
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171016/cdc_171016_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 320.57 KB ]