Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-82-054-1194: Lauson Engine Division, Tecumseh Products; New Holstein, Wisconsin

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• Personal Author:
  Almaguer, Daniel ; Kramkowski, Richard S. ; Orris, Peter
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The sporadic occurrence of an annoying odor which was associated with headaches, fatigue, and dizziness among employees in the starter assembly area of the Lauson Engine Division (SIC-3519), New Holstein, Wisconsin was investigated. An employee representative requested the study which was performed on February 4 and April 20, 1982. Four employees worked in the starter assembly area while the facility as a whole employed 1450 persons. Employee health complaints were suggestive of low dose hydrocarbon exposures. Environmental sampling failed to detect any such exposure. Facility inspection revealed that paint exhaust stacks were settling toward the make-up air intakes. The authors conclude that no health hazard existed in the starter assembly area. Employee complaints of intermittent odors and of nonspecific central nervous system symptoms were probably due to reentry of small quantities of solvent exhaust from the paint booths into the facility. Recommendations for redesign of exhaust stacks and use of stack heads instead of weather caps are provided.
• Subjects:
  Dust Environmental Exposure Naphthalenes Occupational Health Paint Safety Solvents Toluene Ventilation Xylenes
• Keywords:
  Engine-rooms Hazards-Unconfirmed HETA-82-54-1194 Industrial-exposures Industrial-ventilation Internal Combustion Engines Naphthas NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report OSHA Region 5 Spray-painting Xylene

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA820541194
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Wisconsin ; 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:
  9 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00129614
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB84-149863
• 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 82-54-1194, 1982 Sep ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3519 - Internal combustion engines, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b395d50ccdf7902a78ea9a2de26b1890c2ed5ddc0ae4fe75ca058b59ad1eac8ac65925d4b03afc89a03f87bf897ee1046df7d97b2372e407c4979e569da6b4ab
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172996/cdc_172996_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.78 MB ]