Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 97-0185-2675: McGregor Loudspeaker Manufacturing Company, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

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• Personal Author:
  Driscoll, Richard J. ; Kiefer, Max
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  On July 14-16, 1997, investigators from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted a site visit at the McGregor Loudspeaker Manufacturing Company (MLM) in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. The site visit was conducted in response to a management request for a health hazard evaluation (HHE) that asked NIOSH to determine if exposures to contaminants in the manufacturing area may be related to health problems
  
  specifically, sinus infections, sinus congestion and headaches, reported by some employees.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Acetone Butanones Environmental Monitoring Headache Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Toluene
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Automotive Loudspeaker Manufacturing Exposures Hazard-Unconfirmed Headaches Health-hazard-evaluation Hexane Household Audio And Video Equipment Hydroxyalkyl-methacrylate Hydroxyalkyl Methacrylate Industrial-hygiene Manufacturing Methyl-ethyl-ketone Methylene-chloride Methylene Chloride Methyl Ethyl Ketone OSHA Region 5 Sinus-infections Sinus Irritation Sinusitis Surface Contamination Tetrahydrofuran

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9701852675
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Wisconsin ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  28 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Jaycox, Larry ; Kasting Christine ; Lovell, Patricia
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000025
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-149270
• 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 97-0185-2675, 1998 Feb ; :1-32
• CAS Registry Number:
  Methyl ethyl ketone [MEK] (CAS RN 78-93-3) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; Methylene chloride (CAS RN 75-09-2) ; n-Hexane (CAS RN 110-54-3) ; Cellosolve acetate (CAS RN 111-15-9) ; Acetone (CAS RN 67-64-1)
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3651 - Household audio and video equipment - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e8be30613b90b9dd25fe80a9abe6eac51abf0a35ce7e0ea673d58f0cd8913dea70a869e9a38dd8766acb39e488619c30b3e72d9f741206f21eacfcee6789d08f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171058/cdc_171058_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 498.74 KB ]