Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 94-0300-2528: Cape May County Board of Taxation, Cape May Court House, New Jersey

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• Personal Author:
  Moss, C. Eugene ; Ragab, Moustafa
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from the County Tax Administrator, an investigation was begun into exposure to electric and magnetic fields at the Cape May County Board of Taxation (SIC-7389), Cape May Court House, New Jersey. Employees there suspected they were receiving high exposure to extremely low frequency (ELF) electric and magnetic fields. Measurements were taken, with particular attention given to the areas around four large switchboards which were located directly behind the wall of the tax office. At the outside corners of the building and in the parking lot outside, the magnetic field levels ranged from 0.1 to 10.7 milligauss (mG). At similar locations, electric field levels ranged from 1.9 to 6.9 volts/meter (V/m). Inside the building, magnetic and electric field levels ranged from 0.1 to 900mG and 1.4 to 5.7V/m, respectively. Magnetic field levels measured in the vicinity of four administrative officials ranged from 3.02 to 33.55mG. Two of the four workers reported nonmalignant breast tumors: the other two reported thyroid conditions and an abnormal pap smear test result. All the measured levels were significantly below current occupational exposure limits. The authors conclude that all ELF electric and magnetic fields were below occupational exposure limits. It was not possible to determine whether any of the reported medical problems resulted from exposure to ELF.
• Subjects:
  Electricity Electromagnetic Phenomena Magnetic Fields Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Electrical-fields Electromagnetic-fields Electromagnetic Field ELF EMF Extremely Low Frequency Hazard-Unconfirmed HETA-94-0300-2528 Magnetic-fields NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Occupational-exposure Office-workers OSHA Region 2 Tax Collection Agencies Collecting For A City, County, Or State

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9403002528
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• 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:
  16 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Blythe, Ellen E.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00230296
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB96-191838
• 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 94-0300-2528, 1995 Sep ; :1-12
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  7389 - Business services, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9fbf98a1408cda970859f56ba4a43b8f9793990686e60581a49d80f4cc0c82cc278a7213b208c9c4b7fc204a91208170207b76eb157a67bfd416cbad4e7dadca
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171243/cdc_171243_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.45 MB ]