Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HHE-79-102-1073: Union City Body Company; Union City, Indiana

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• Personal Author:
  Costello, Richard J. ; Melius, James M. ; Slovin, Donald L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from the Union City Body Company (SIC- 3713), located in Union City, Indiana, an evaluation was made of employee complaints of headaches, high blood pressure and nosebleeds. This facility manufactures truck bodies for delivery vehicles. An anticorrosive weldable sealer, Anchor Tuflex 23, used at this facility was a metallo/organic complex with 42 percent aliphatic solvents and less than 1 percent aromatic solvents. It contained 56 percent nonvolatiles (not identified). Tuflex was applied by spray gun or brush as an anticorrosive weldable sealer. There was general exposure to a solvent containing 1,1,1- trichloroethane (71556), which can be absorbed through the skin. In both welding areas the fume samples were quite low, and not expected to induce adverse health effects. One worker did experience some difficulties which may have resulted from exposure to copper (7440508) fumes. Solvent and alkane levels in Tuflex were well below environmental criteria. No appreciable problems were noted in the primer drying oven areas. The authors conclude that some workers had experienced occasional irritative effects from welding operations, but no other definite health hazards were found. The authors recommend avoiding solvent contact with the skin, and installing local exhaust ventilation at the point of contamination generation which would help minimize irritative symptoms.
• Subjects:
  Lung Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Skin Solvents Trichloroethanes Ventilation Welding
• Keywords:
  1,1,1-Trichloroethane Hazard-Confirmed NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Organic-solvents OSHA Region 5 Pulmonary-system-disorders Skin-exposure Skin-irritants Truck And Bus Bodies Tuflex(R) Ventilation-equipment Welders Welding-industry

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE791021073
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; 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:
  16 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Woodruff, Jackie
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00178936
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB83-199448
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE 79-102-1073, 1982 Mar ; :1-14
• CAS Registry Number:
  1,1,1-Trichloroethane (CAS RN 71-55-6) ; Copper (CAS RN 7440-50-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• NORA Priority Area:
  Pulmonary-system-disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3713 - Truck and bus bodies - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:92d48a173b5c4f4d138d3880cddcc5a95ca1538472bbce78cb36be1f21bbb7c0b9f43955157906011e91778558633ad57a605d57b70d91a44531f5cc7efc7009
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172002/cdc_172002_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.57 MB ]