Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-82-186-1203: Perry Nuclear Plant; Perry, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Lee, Stephen A.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A survey was requested by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and was performed on March 25, 1982 at Perry Nuclear Power facility (SIC-1629), Perry, Ohio. Employees numbered 300. Personal and area air samples were analyzed for zinc (7440666), iron-oxide (1332372), lead (7439921), nickel (7440020), chromium (7440473), xylene (1330207), methyl-isobutyl-ketone (108101), cellosolve (110805), ethanol (64175), and isopropanol (67630). An earlier study by Environmental Research Group (ERG) was evaluated. Iron-oxide concentrations were 5400 to 9900 micrograms per cubic meter (microg/m3), (evaluation criterion: 5000microg/m3), nickel from 720 to 850microg/m3: (15microg/m3) and chromium from 650 to 1100microg/m3: (25microg/m3). Chromium concentrations taken by ERG were 1 to 270microg/m3. ERG found four samples exceeded the evaluation criterion for zinc (criterion: 5000microg/m3)
  
  five for lead (500microg/m3) and seven for chromium (microg/m3). The combined exposures to organic compounds during C-191 painting were 88 and 93 percent of the evaluation criteria for two samples. ERG found silica (14808607) exceeded the evaluation criteria of 50 micrograms per cubic meter. The author concludes that workers may have been overexposed to iron-oxide, zinc, lead, nickel, silica, and chromium. Exposures were generally below OSHA standards, but above NIOSH standards. Exposure controls are recommended.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA821861203
• 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:
  14 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Albrecht, William
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00127125
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB84-173012
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, Ohio: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 82-186-1203, 1982 October ; :1-14
• CAS Registry Number:
  Zinc (CAS RN 7440-66-6) ; Iron oxide (CAS RN 1332-37-2) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Nickel (CAS RN 7440-02-0) ; Chromium (CAS RN 7440-47-3) ; Xylene (CAS RN 1330-20-7) ; Methyl isobutyl ketone (CAS RN 108-10-1) ; 2-Ethoxyethanol (CAS RN 110-80-5) ; Ethanol (CAS RN 64-17-5) ; Isopropyl alcohol (CAS RN 67-63-0) ; Silica, Crystalline (CAS RN 14808-60-7)
• Editor(s):
  Woodruff, Jackie
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  1629 - Heavy construction, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d99a1bcb9ad4673550806f8b608b86fc336d9390e2ed33e6e47837c6141c32e5bef9f858f72507329f1477cbead0b4dd7d77226c1d4faff3acc5962411e93e69
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173144/cdc_173144_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.51 MB ]