Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-87-352-2097: International Association of Fire Fighters; Anaheim, California

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• Personal Author:
  Tubbs, Randy L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) audiometric examination and pulmonary function testing were performed for 800 participants at the Ninth Redmond Symposium in Anaheim, California. Of the 800 participants, 375 filled out the self-administered questionnaire during the five days of the symposium. The 333 who were included in the data analysis ranged in age from 20 to 65 years, with a mean age of 29 years. The results indicated that the participating fire fighters had high frequency hearing losses that progressively got worse as the years of service of the fire fighter increased. The left ears had poorer hearing than the right ears. These hearing losses were statistically related to aging. Presbycusis was characterized by high frequency losses which progressively got worse at higher frequencies. Even though this study did not document an occupational etiology to the hearing loss experienced by half of these participants, the study was limited by the self-selection of participants and the audiograms were generally more suggestive of noise induced hearing loss than presbycusis.
• Subjects:
  Ear Firefighters Hearing Hearing Loss Noise Occupational Health Safety Sense Organs
• Keywords:
  Fire Departments-including Volunteer Firemen Hazard-Unconfirmed Hearing-loss Hearing-threshold Hearing Conservation Programs Hearing Loss HETA-87-352-2097 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Noise-exposure OSHA Region 9

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA873522097
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• 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:
  14 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Dotson, Beverly ; Hartle, Lynette K. ; McKinzie, Patricia E. ; Zumwalde, Nancy L.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00199118
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91-212415
• 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 87-352-2097, 1991 Feb ; :1-16
• Editor(s):
  Morris, Linda J.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9224 - Fire protection - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8fad9a611f95ab65d248fddb2ab62a0fb975e433d8b363d80aad0e68724c65785c042c4f4d5758af12f15915bcee2eb218436d1096d85950f8dd77d1f2bb2a14
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171683/cdc_171683_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 229.24 KB ]