Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-85-165-1605: St. Louis Police Auto Body Shop; St. Louis, Missouri

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• Personal Author:
  Carson, George A.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental and breathing zone samples were analyzed for toluene (108883), lead (7439921), and total dust at the Saint Louis Police Auto Body Shop (SIC-7351), Saint Louis, Missouri in January and February 1985. The evaluation was requested by the Health Commissioner of the City of Saint Louis to investigate working conditions in the body shop. A prior health department investigation had indicated that there might be health hazards in the shop area. Environmental toluene concentrations ranged from non-detectable to 4.5 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3). The OSHA standard for toluene is 750mg/m3. No lead was detected. Environmental and breathing zone total dust exposures ranged from non-detectable to 2.9mg/m3 and from 0.44 to 13mg/m3, respectively. The OSHA standard for total dust is 15mg/m3. The author notes that one dust sample exceeded the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' threshold limit value of 10mg/m3. The author concludes that a potential health hazard exists due to overexposure to total dust while performing certain repairs at the facility. Recommendations include installing a supply air ventilation system for the exhaust fans, orienting vehicles in the shop so that technicians are always working upstream of the airflow and providing respiratory protection when it is not possible to control dust emissions.
• Subjects:
  Automobiles Dust Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Analytical-methods Automotive-industry Automotive Repair Shops/Top And Body Repair Shops Dust-exposure Environmental-control Exposure-limits Hazards-Confirmed HETA-85-165-1605 Lead NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report OSHA Region 7 Respiratory Protection Toluene Total Dust Ventilation

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA851651605
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Missouri ; 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:
  16 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00131582
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB86-144789
• 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 85-165-1605, 1985 Jul ; :1-13
• CAS Registry Number:
  Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Editor(s):
  Kelso, Mary
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1985
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  7351 - News Syndicates - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a17387cef61923a546998c442a995bc71821f76a295168c41342270bc3f2254795a1c1b2aa1677a08c210b1b6969985f7209e405b7486d6757a9dc40e5bc6e07
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172924/cdc_172924_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.70 MB ]