Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 97-0084-2669: Woodward Governor Company, Fort Collins, Colorado

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• Personal Author:
  McCammon, Charles S. ; Reh, Beth D. ; Reh, Christopher M. ; Tubbs, Randy L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  On January 13, 1997, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request from the safety director of the Woodward Governor Co., Fort Collins, Colorado, plant to conduct a health hazard evaluation (HHE). The request asked for assistance in documenting worker exposure to a wide variety of contaminants in production jobs including printed circuit board manufacturing, electrical product assembly, silk screening, spray painting, shipping, and mechanical production. The exposures of concern included isocyanates, inorganic acids, ammonia, solvents, lead, cutting fluids, and noise. Woodward Governor has many plants around the world involved in the manufacture of engine control devices. The Fort Collins, Colorado, plant employs about 800 workers involved in a wide range of production jobs. An environmental survey was conducted on March 10-12, 1997, which included monitoring for noise, metal working fluids, solvents (toluene, xylene, propylene glycol monomethyl ether (PGME), and formaldehyde), lead, ammonia, inorganic acids (hydrochloric, nitric, sulfuric, and phosphoric acids), and isocyanates (toluene diisoyanate (TDI) and methylene diisocyanate (MDI) monomers and oligomers, and total reactive isocyanate groups (TRIGs)).
• Subjects:
  Ammonia Ear Formaldehyde Hazardous Substances Isocyanates Lead Occupational Health Safety Sense Organs Solvents Toluene Xylenes

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• Keywords:
  Contaminants Engine-control-devices Evaluation-criteria Exposure Health-hazard-evaluation Hydrochloric-acid Inorganic Acids Internal Combustion Engines, Not Elsewhere Classified Isocyanates Manufacturing-plants MDI Metal Working Fluids Methods Nitric-acid Noise Phosphoric-acid Propylene-glycol-monomethyl-ether Sulfuric-acid TDI Toluene-diisocyanate Total Reactive Isocyanate Groups Toxic-substances Xylene

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9700842669
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• 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:
  50 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Lee, Stephen A. ; Lovell, Patricia
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000014
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-151722
• 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 97-0084-2669,1997 Dec ; :1-54
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Ammonia (anhydrous) (CAS RN 7664-41-7) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; Xylene (CAS RN 1330-20-7) ; Propylene glycol methyl ether (CAS RN 107-98-2) ; Formaldehyde (CAS RN 50-00-0) ; Hydrochloric acid, anhydrous (CAS RN 7647-01-0) ; Sulfuric acid (CAS RN 7664-93-9) ; Concentrated Nitric acid (70%) (CAS RN 7697-37-2) ; Phosphoric acid (CAS RN 7664-38-2) ; 2,4-Toluene diisocyanate (CAS RN 584-84-9)
• Editor(s):
  Arthur, Penny
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3519 - Internal combustion engines, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8cfb9f99eb26b96f2c032daa44e670f103a6703be8a2b587fe792dd51e8b25336d120d9bbc0efab98850f0caa44085246815a4aeb862d4c39a40759e237f0a0e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171068/cdc_171068_DS1.pdf
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