Hazard Evaluation and Technical Assistance Report No. TA-78-22: U.S. Postal Service Indoor Firing Ranges Management Sectional Center; Merrifield, Virginia: A Study of the Effectiveness of Copper Jacketed Ammunition in Lowering Lead Exposures in Indoor Firing Ranges

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• Personal Author:
  Kronoveter, Kenneth J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Air sampling for lead exposures was recently conducted on two surveys in Ranges Aand B at the U.S. Postal Service, Management Sectional Center, Merrifield, Virginia. The purpose of the studies was to determine whether the use of cartridges containing copper jacketed slugs would lower air lead levels in the ranges to acceptable levels. For the latter of the two surveys (the better controlled), the air lead levels in Range A varied from 0.18 to 0.69 mg/M3 with a mean of 0.34 mg/M3 for the copper jacketed cartridges and varied from 0.33 to 1.02 mg/M3 with a mean of 0.55 mg/M3 for the lead wadcutter car~ridges. The air lead levels in Range B varied from 1.30 to 1.90 mg/M with a mean of 1.50 ~g/M for the copper jacketed cartridges and varied from 0.84 to 2.20 mg/M with a mean of 1.30 mg/M3 for the lead wadcutter cartridges. An explanation for the differences in the jacketed-wadcutter comparisons was not clearly evident. At any rate, even with the use of cartridges containing copper jacketed slugs (and primers containing lead) a significant lead exposure hazard exists in the ranges, particularly to the range masters. Therefore, it is recommended that the Postal Service continue with their plans and efforts to install new ventilation systems within the ranges. A properly designed, and installed, ventilation system will lower the air lead levels to acceptable concentrations.
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-samples Environmental-exposure Exposure-levels Exposure-limits Hazards-Confirmed NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report OSHA Region 3 Postal-employees Sampling-methods TA-78-22

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Virginia ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  21 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Walker, Michael ; Crandall, Michael S.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00136836
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-177064
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1978 Aug ; :1-18
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Copper (CAS RN 7440-50-8)
• Editor(s):
  Morris, Linda
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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