Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-84-163-1657: Siouxpreme Egg Products; Sioux Center, Iowa

Details

• Personal Author:
  Carson, George A. ; Smith, Alexander B.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Following a request from workers, a health hazard evaluation was conducted at Siouxpreme Egg Products (SIC-2017), Sioux Center, Iowa where raw eggs are processed into egg yolk powder and liquid egg white. Air was sampled for chloride and iodide ions, hydrogen chloride (7647010), sulfuric acid (7664939), and total and respirable egg dust. Chemical contaminant exposure was below OSHA, NIOSH, and ACGIH guidelines. Personal total dust in sifting and packaging rooms were respectively 12.8 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3) and 7.3 mg/m3 for one worker. Dust samples were 50% protein. Noise levels ranged from 98 decibels-A (dBA) in the sifter powder room to 85 dBA in the pick and prewash area. Five of 31 employees examined for occupational asthma showed positive findings due to hypersensitivity to egg protein. The authors conclude that a health hazard existed due to occupational exposure to egg protein. Recommendations include: removing workers with work related asthma to other areas of operation
  
  evaluation of workers who develop episodic wheezing and shortness of breath
  
  notifying employees in whom hypersensitivity reactions have been documented not to receive immunizations with vaccines grown in eggs
  
  provision of local exhaust ventilation for the sifter and packaging room
  
  and more positive removal of decontamination mist.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Asthma Asthma, Occupational Chlorine Dust Ear Food-Processing Industry Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Sense Organs

  More +
• Keywords:
  Egg Dust Egg Protein Food-processing-workers Hazard-Confirmed HETA-84-163-1657 Iodine NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Publication NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Noise-sources Occupational Asthma OSHA Region 7 Proteins Respirable-dust

  More +
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA841631657
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; OSHA Region 7
• 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:
  45 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Aw, Tar-Ching ; London, Matthew A. ; Kopp, Shelby ; Moller, David ; Bernstein, David ; Gallagher, Joan ; Kelso, Mary
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00163144
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB86-223013
• 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 84-163-1657, 1986 Jan ; :1-43
• CAS Registry Number:
  Hydrogen chloride (CAS RN 7647-01-0) ; Sulfuric acid (CAS RN 7664-93-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1986
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2017 - Poultry and Egg Processing - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:600149cba4b00204637b170e6f225cb1f3c5d16ff6c56a6ce29145a5476c9e1e8aa33edda68efd04ef8bbf78b34c5af9b56f54bca8f77a471a04de5898e836c1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172213/cdc_172213_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.19 MB ]