Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 97–0034–2683: International Association of Fire Fighters, Indianapolis, Indiana

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• Personal Author:
  Cook, Calvin K. ; Trout, Douglas B.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In November 1996, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a health hazard evaluation (HHE) request from the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local 146 on behalf of the Indianapolis Fire Department (IFD) and Perry Township Fire Department (PTFD) personnel who were exposed to chemicals or injured during and after fire suppression activities at UCR, Incorporated, a chemical warehouse located in Indianapolis, Indiana. NIOSH was asked to review the circumstances surrounding the fire, evaluate the overall incident command system, and investigate chemical exposures and injuries experienced by fire fighters.
• Subjects:
  Dust Firefighters Fires Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Chemical Fire Chemicals Chemical Warehouse Contamination Criteria Exposure Fire-fighters Fire Fighters Firefighters Fire Protection Hazard-Confirmed Health-hazard-evaluation Health Effects ICS Incident Command System Industrial Fire Injuries Medical-evaluations Methods OSHA Region 5 Overhaul Personal-protective-equipment PPE Recommendations SCBA Self-contained-breathing-apparatus Self-contained Breathing Apparatus

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9700342683
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; 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:
  17 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Blythe, Ellen E.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000021
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-149312
• 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 97-0034-2683, 1998 Apr ; :1-22
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• 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-512:99d9bfff6ef48fe0bfde5b21eb5d6bd04b68bb664e1d36a4aa2fc2b11f807eb5ab951d827a2fa0ce1ebbc4cba95d451f9d9d0a60423f234c26ff48e2ee662cef
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171062/cdc_171062_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 207.40 KB ]