Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 97–0119–2707: Victoria Vogue, Inc., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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• Personal Author:
  Cook, Calvin K.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In February 1997, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a confidential request for a health hazard evaluation (HHE) from a group of employees at Victoria Vogue, Inc. in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The HHE request concerned employee health complaints that include skin rash, eye irritation, and difficulty breathing that were believed to be caused by occupational exposure to cotton dust during the production of velour materials and cosmetic powder puffs. Employees were also concerned about poor lighting while operating machinery in the Automatics department. On August 4-5, 1997, a site visit was made by NIOSH investigators to conduct an industrial hygiene survey that included exposure monitoring on workers for cotton dust, a lighting survey to determine adequate illumination at workstations, and a general safety inspection of the weaving operation. A symptoms questionnaire was distributed to each employee to obtain baseline information and the prevalence of their health complaints.
• Subjects:
  Byssinosis Dust Gossypium Lighting Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Cosmetics Cotton Cotton-dust Cotton-fabrics Cotton Dust Cotton Processing Hazard-Confirmed Health Effects Illumination Machine Guarding OSHA Region 3 Powder Puffs Respiratory-system-disorders Velour Weaving Yarn Spinning Mills

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9701192707
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  14 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Blythe, Ellen E. ; Clayton, Rollin S. ; Nelson, Juanita
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000516
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-153835
• 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 97-0119-2707, 1998 Sep ; :1-13
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2281 - Yarn spinning mills - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:465c553cd5f793291ea2bb4c5352ddcce6b183fc7ba1e95a8fcd81132b1a967f7d3c9c938bd7f04b0d6ba5e2575eb1d8acadeb3d1ea598b749d5520fa07872a9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171025/cdc_171025_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 192.52 KB ]