Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-85-453-1787: Sperry Rand Corporation; Great Neck, New York

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• Personal Author:
  Singal, Mitchell
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from the International Union of Electrical workers, an evaluation was conducted at the Sperry Rand Corporation (SIC-3679) facility in Great Neck, New York. Workers in the Incoming Inspection area had developed dermatitis on hands and arms after handling tote boxes impregnated with the antistatic agent bis- hydroxyethyltallowamine (BHETA). Use of the boxes was discontinued after about 8 months, but symptoms continued in some workers. Application of BHETA to the skin of six unexposed volunteers resulted in irritant reactions to 50 percent and 25 percent BHETA, varying reactions to 12.5 and 6.13 percent BHETA, and no reactions at lower concentrations
  
  one individual had a delayed reaction at the site and reacted to a closed patch test with 0.5 percent BHETA. Necrotic irritant reactions were produced by two skin applications of 25 percent BHETA in guineapigs, while three applications of 2.5 percent BHETA produced shallow cutaneous ulcerations. No BHETA was detected in wipe samples taken 4 months after use of the tote boxes was discontinued. Three of 18 workers tested with 0.5 percent BHETA had weakly positive reactions. The author concludes that BHETA was a likely cause of the dermatitis. The author recommends that the BHETA impregnated tote boxes previously used should not be reintroduced.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Amines Dermatitis Occupational Health Safety Skin Skin Diseases
• Keywords:
  Allergic Contact Dermatitis Bis-Hydroxyethyltallowamine Electronic Components, Not Elsewhere Classified Hazard-Confirmed HETA-85-453-1787 Irritant Contact Dermatitis NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report OSHA Region 2 Skin-disorders Skin-irritants

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA854531787
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• 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:
  10 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Bennett, Diane E. ; Mathias, C. G. Toby ; Fannick, Nicholas ; Susten, Alan S. ; Carolan, Robert J. ; Bolyard, Michele L. ; Brassell, Jenise
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00171100
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB87-232302
• 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, HETA 85-453-1787, 1987 Apr ; :1-8
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1987
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3679 - Electronic components, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:99168f7fe1a1fe1429ecf4126e110441070c860470a813abc9b9ffacdbfdb526406dffa86c904138d175252b8ec9a709dc863b4dfc883bef8825db376cdcb211
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172101/cdc_172101_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.13 MB ]