Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-92-180-2246: Ohio State Auditors Office; Sharonville, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Almaguer, Daniel ; Wilcox, Thomas G.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from the Sharonville Department of Health, an evaluation was made of possible hazardous working conditions at the Ohio State Auditors Office (SIC-9199) located in Sharonville, Ohio. In August of 1991, the office was relocated to its present location. In the late fall of 1991, employees noted a petroleum like odor which worsened with time. Specific symptoms experienced included headache, eye irritation and fatigue. Results of the study indicated that the air contained a complex mixture of hydrocarbons ranging from C4 through C12. Volatile organic chemical concentrations ranged up to 160 parts per million. The total airborne hydrocarbon concentrations in the office were much greater than total airborne concentrations in the adjacent ground floor office and in one office suite on the second floor. The authors conclude that the subsurface of this property may be contaminated with a complex mixture of hydrocarbons, which apparently is volatilizing and entering the building through cracks in the concrete flooring and foundation. The authors recommend that soil studies be conducted to determine the source of the contamination and that efforts be made to lower the concentration of total airborne hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds in the office space.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Volatile Organic Compounds
• Keywords:
  Environmental-contamination General Government, Not Elsewhere Classified Hazard-Confirmed HETA-92-180-2246 Hydrocarbons IAQ Indoor-air-pollution Indoor-environmental-quality NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Occupational-exposure Office-workers OSHA Region 5 Underground Storage Tanks UST VOCs Volatiles

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA921802246
• 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:
  17 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Decker, John A. ; Klein, Matthew K.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00210238
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB93-119964
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, Ohio: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 92-180-2246, 1992 Aug ; :1-19
• Editor(s):
  Humphries, Donna M.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9199 - General government, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a181b127d74d497958633fdb3b33ca607b2114418be0deb2ea5daef29af2e10fab7272efaafeb19239aab73ab9af8a2c93ab54e17b6bb9ffa78a64fbc6dc7acb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171531/cdc_171531_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 198.37 KB ]