Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 97-0220-2671: Remington Industries, Incorporated, Benton, Tennessee

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• Personal Author:
  Conover, David L. ; Moss, C. Eugene
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• 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.
• Subjects:
  Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Radiation Radio Waves Safety
• Keywords:
  Body-current-levels Body Current Evaluation-criteria Gall Bladder Hazard-Unconfirmed Health-hazard-evaluation Heat-sealers Heat Sealer Interviews Methods Occupational-exposure OSHA Region 4 Plastic Products, Not Elsewhere Classified Radiofrequency-radiation RF Radiation

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9702202671
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee ; 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:
  12 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Nelson, Juanita
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000016
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-151706
• 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
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3089 - Plastics products, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7d42b50b627d553a672b028b2ce2b1e8c0164c5a03fbaf53912f715af94a86b823589f2de737a88d8e42c0c1c809b3ac2c70b9ecd868973afba1f017e7696f2c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171066/cdc_171066_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 602.46 KB ]