Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-93-1038-2432: L-S Electro-Galvanizing Company; Cleveland, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Mattorano, Dino A. ; Moss, C. Eugene
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from management at the L-S Electro- Galvanizing Company (SIC-3471), Cleveland, Ohio, an investigation was begun into possible electric and magnetic field exposure at that site. Steel strips were plated with zinc alloy on the electrogalvanizing line. The electrogalvanizing lines employed 14 workers in a 24-hour operation. Occupational exposure was documented for levels of static magnetic and sub-radiofrequency electric and magnetic fields found at the facility. The static magnetic field (SMF) time weighted average (TWA) was estimated to be less than 50 gauss (G). The TWA SMF levels did not exceed the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) threshold limit value (TLV) of 600G. Sub-radiofrequency electric and magnetic field levels ranged from 0.1 to 10 volts per meter and 0.1 to 14G, respectively. Sub-radiofrequency magnetic field levels measured near an electrical substation door outside the facility exceeded the ACGIH TLV limit of 10G
  
  however, this measurement was not considered to be an occupational exposure because workers were not normally found at this location. The authors conclude that a health hazard did not exist at the time of the survey from exposure to electric and magnetic fields.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Electricity Electroplating Magnetic Fields Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Radiation Safety
• Keywords:
  Electrical-fields Electrogalvanizing Electromagnetic-radiation Electroplaters Electroplating, Plating, Polishing, Anodizing, And Coloring ELF EMF Hazard-Unconfirmed HETA-93-1038-2432 Magnetic-fields NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Occupational-exposure OSHA Region 5 Radiation-exposure Static Magnetic Fields

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9310382432
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; 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:
  8 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00221738
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB95-128708
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, Ohio: 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 93-1038-2432, 1994 Jun ; :1-8
• Editor(s):
  Blythe, Ellen E.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3471 - Plating and polishing - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:94b97ef44f08ef10363f890be650c090a6c3fbf0ea0c5727074c04187779d49dd2553331a31e9efc21705629ea10303bd7977b81d0f64882daa649ffd247bf20
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171352/cdc_171352_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 178.96 KB ]