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Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 97-0220-2671: Remington Industries, Incorporated, Benton, Tennessee
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1998/01/01
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Description:In August 1997, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted a health hazard evaluation at Remington Industries, Incorporated (RII) in Benton, Tennessee. The evaluation was made in response to be a confidential exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation from four heat sealers at the facility. The requestor was concerned because three women in the heat-sealing area has all recently undergone gall bladder operations. Electric (E-field) and magnetic (H-field) field strengths and induced body current levels were measured during routine use of the heat sealers, and interviews were conducted with all heat sealer operators. The waste E-field measurement on one heat sealer exceeded occupational exposure criteria for its operating frequency of 27.1 MHZ. This elevated reading was taken in from of the heat sealer, where a metal shielding enclosure around the welding head had become loose. After the enclosure was tightened, re-measurements indicated that the leakage site produced levels well below the occupational standards. There was one location near the back of a heat sealer where the magnetic field strength exceeded the occupational exposure criteria, however no operator worked in that location.
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DOI:10.26616/NIOSHHETA9702202671
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Pages in Document:12 pdf pages
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Contributor:Nelson, Juanita
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NIOSHTIC Number:20000016
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NTIS Accession Number:PB99-151706
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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 97-0220-2671, 1998 Jan;:1-16;
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Federal Fiscal Year:1998
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Resource Number:HETA-97-0220-2671
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