Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-82-017-1067: City of Norwood; Norwood, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Boiano, James M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A request for technical assistance by the City of Norwood Health Department, Norwood, Ohio to determine the concentration of arsenic (7440382) in an old vacant building was received. The study was conducted on October 22 and November 5, 1981. In 1974, the site had been found to be heavily contaminated with arsenic. The source of the contamination was an arsenic-trioxide based rodenticide which had been mixed on site 40 years earlier. Fourteen dust samples were collected from various surfaces and analyzed for arsenic. Six floor samples had 3 to 41 percent arsenic by weight. Five wipe samples from the walls contained between 0.5 and 310 micrograms of arsenic per square inch while other samples had between 130 and 2100 micrograms per square inch. The author concludes that the site is still contaminated with arsenic. He recommends decontamination procedures under strict guidelines.
• Subjects:
  Arsenic Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Inorganic Chemicals Occupational Health Poisoning Safety
• Keywords:
  Arsenic Arsenic-compounds Arsenic-poisoning Arsenic Trioxide Building Contamination Environmental-pollution Hazards-Confirmed HETA-82-17-1067 Local Government NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report OSHA Region 5 Rodenticide Rodenticides

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA82171067
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  11 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Nutter, Mark
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00129620
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB83-199406
• 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 82-17-1067, 1982 Mar ; :1-8
• CAS Registry Number:
  Arsenic (CAS RN 7440-38-2)
• Editor(s):
  McDonald, Debra A.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9199 - General government, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:67d06a2ad10c22f12b9b56eb74aea00a0a9d8d1f747a7863c053b8a89804c1fe3d93c101262a433cf9c0d252a44948d8fa95dfcd6c86ac6e53e80a55fa4ed3d0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172990/cdc_172990_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.28 MB ]