Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-86-341-1711: Miller Brands Inc.; Denver, Colorado

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• Personal Author:
  Gunter, Bobby J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The Operations Manager of Miller Brands (SIC-5181), Denver, Colorado, requested an evaluation of carbon-monoxide (630080) (CO) exposures in the beer distributorship and storage facilities. Gasoline powered beer trucks and forklifts used inside large buildings generate the CO. The OSHA standard for CO is 50 parts per million (ppm) as a time weighted average. CO measurements taken in the beer storage warehouse, in the beer keg refrigerated storage room, and in the building where the filled trucks were dispatched were within acceptable concentrations in all areas except the refrigerated keg storage room. Levels in this room reached 200ppm after the forklift truck had been entering and exiting for about 20 minutes. The level stayed at 200 to 230ppm for the next 2.5 hours of the operation. After loading, the room was closed, and the level of CO was still at 150ppm 1 hour later. The door was then left open, and the CO level reached an acceptable concentration of 50ppm after 1 hour. The authors recommend that electric forklift trucks be used in the beer keg cool room to eliminate this CO hazard. Beer trucks and forklifts should not be left running at any time and trucks should leave the facility immediately after their engines are started.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Vehicle Emissions
• Keywords:
  Beer Storage Carbon Monoxide Exhaust-gases Fumes Gas Powered Fork Lift Trucks Hazard-Confirmed HETA-86-341-1711 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report OSHA Region 8 Refrigerated Storage Storage-facilities Truck-drivers

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA863411711
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• 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:
  6 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Brewer, Marile F.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00163594
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB87-117040
• 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 86-341-1711, 1986 Jul ; :1-6
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1986
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  5181 - Beer and ale - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fe39d2b6884eec285dd6c580abebd1b2490c750c1224d639156c5075aa36f984ed5b2543f76fd3f9bab0f501f1e4a1b6388a17a180b3a29dee3c3861d879e5a1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172175/cdc_172175_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 140.41 KB ]