Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 98-0026-2745: Ronald McDonald House of Durham, Durham, North Carolina

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• Personal Author:
  Page, Elena H. ; Weber, Angela M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In November 1997, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a management request from the Steven Brouillard Construction Company (SBCC) for a health hazard evaluation (HHE) at the Ronald McDonald House (RMDH) in Durham, North Carolina. The HHE requesters expressed concern over employees' reports of adverse health effects (diarrhea, stomach cramps, vomiting, dizziness, weakness, and fatigue), which the SBCC employees attributed to exposures to fungi and their toxins while performing renovations on contaminated building materials at the RMDH. In response, NIOSH investigators conducted an initial site visit at the RMDH on November 12-13, 1997, and returned to conduct microbial sampling on November 24-25, 1997.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Environmental Monitoring Fungi Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Bioaerosols Hazard-Unconfirmed IAQ IEQ Indoor-air-quality Indoor Environmental Quality Microbial-remediation Microbial Remediation Microorganisms Mycotoxins OSHA Region 4 Residential Care Spores

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9800262745
• 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:
  51 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Burr, Gregory A. ; Lovell, Patricia ; Martinez, Kenneth F.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000524
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2000-103340
• 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 98-0026-2745, 1999 Jul ; :1-47
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  8361 - Residential care - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0dc3ddd7b50ddcaca93899ec2b2ba46915e61eae41cac0954085c572b830d2572b178984006aca9e75564972a83001b333c8904e9594360867f309116d24f144
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171018/cdc_171018_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 480.95 KB ]