Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-88-346-2030: Graphic Creations, Inc.; Warren, Rhode Island

Details

• Personal Author:
  Kaiser, Edward A.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from the management of Graphic Creations, Inc. (SIC-2752), Warren, Rhode Island, an evaluation was made of employee exposures to hydroquinone (123319) and printing press cleaning solvents which contained benzene (71432). The printing process involves photographic artwork producing a negative, making a plate, exposing the plate in an exposure frame, and installing the plate on the press. The only ventilation was an air conditioning unit installed in 1972. The evaluation results indicated exposures to isopropyl-alcohol (67630) concentrations ranging from nondetectable to 31.4mg/m3, naphtha (8030306) from 81.74 to 914.8mg/m3, and 2-butoxyethanol (111762) from nondetectable to 2.56mg/m3. Personal breathing zone exposures to benzene were observed to range from 0.98 to 1.0 parts per million. Hydroquinone was not detected. The author concludes that a health hazard did exist for employees exposed to naphtha, benzene and 2-butoxyethanol. The author recommends measures to minimize these exposures.
• Subjects:
  • Dust
  • Occupational Exposure
  • Occupational Health
  • Photography
  • Printing
  • Safety
  • Solvents
• Keywords:
  • NIOSH-Author
  • NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation
  • NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report
  • HETA-88-346-2030
  • Hazard-Confirmed
  • OSHA Region 1
  • Organic-solvents
  • Solvent-vapors
  • Photography
  • Printing-presses
  More +
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA883462030
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Rhode Island ; OSHA Region 1
• 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:
  23 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  McManus, Kevin P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00194764
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91-116541
• 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 88-346-2030, G1990 Apr ; :1-21
• CAS Registry Number:
  • 2-Butoxyethanol (CAS RN 111-76-2)
  • Benzene (CAS RN 71-43-2)
  • Hydroquinone (CAS RN 123-31-9)
  • Isopropyl alcohol (CAS RN 67-63-0)
  • Petroleum ether (CAS RN 8030-30-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2752 - Commercial printing, lithographic - (SIC)
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171738/cdc_171738_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.15 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4fd4f02e59d377fb3e9d2e7c90ec530136a9ae592985509a08852054d79015d76ae0d66583fb974271f44159db04b4d45b31d137e6ab953e45d24259931fb852