Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-92-064-2222: Ohio Valley Litho Color, Inc.; Florence, Kentucky

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• Personal Author:
  Burr, Gregory A. ; Moss, C. Eugene
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a confidential request from a worker at Ohio Valley Litho Color, Inc. (SIC-2752) in Florence, Kentucky, an evaluation was made of possible exposure to electrical currents during the operation of an industrial papercutter. The company used industrial papercutters to prepare various types of advertising material for their clients. An operator of the papercutters had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Measurements indicated that operators of the equipment had electrical currents of 9.7 to 160 microamperes passing through their bodies. There do not appear to be any standards related to exposure to currents of this magnitude passing through the body. The authors conclude that no electrocution or electrical burn hazard existed at the time of the survey. The lack of data to indicate the outcome of chronic exposure to low levels of currents passing through the body over a period of several years makes it impossible to rule out a connection between this exposure and chronic diseases such as brain tumors or cancers. The authors recommend that efforts be made to eliminate this exposure.
• Subjects:
  Electric Injuries Electricity Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Brain Tumor Commercial Printing, Lithographic Electrical-equipment Electrical-hazards Electrical-waves Electrical Current Hazard-Unconfirmed HETA-92-064-2222 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Occupational-exposure OSHA Region 4 Papercutter

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA920642222
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; 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:
  8 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00209046
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB92-229129
• 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 92-064-2222, 1992 May ; :1-9
• Editor(s):
  Blythe, Ellen E.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2752 - Commercial printing, lithographic - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:660725e204d9ea36d5cdba734c2a0d3af4d22d8f21997a610a211669e4259e145e599647a457657c31c05e84b4cfe8af9ac8f97c91cac0355fd377b916fabd02
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171562/cdc_171562_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 169.60 KB ]