Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-80-143-1001: Jefferson Electric Company; Williamstown, Kentucky

Details

• Personal Author:
  Froneberg, Brigitte ; Love, John R.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Bulk samples of rosin and levulinic-acid (123762) were analyzed, medical records reviewed, and medical questionnaires distributed to workers at the Jefferson Electric Company (SIC-3612) in Williamstown, Kentucky on May 27, 1980. Unidentified workers requested the evaluation after an incident involving about 20 workers being exposed to toxic fumes during overheating of a wax, rosin flux, and levulinic mixture. Analysis of the rosin flux bulk indicated that its major component was n-butanol (71363). Worker’s symptoms resulting from the exposure included adverse effects on mucous membranes, upper and lower respiratory tract, skin, central nervous system and gastrointestinal and urinary tracts. The authors conclude that the reported symptoms were consistent with the known toxic effects of n-butanol exposure but note that the process which caused the creation of n-butanol has been discontinued.
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA801431001
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• 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:
  10 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00123667
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-186982
• 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 80-143-1001, 1981 November ; 1-10
• CAS Registry Number:
  Levulinic acid (CAS RN 123-76-2) ; n-Butanol (CAS RN 71-36-3)
• Editor(s):
  O'Neal, Terry R.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3612 - Transformers, except electronic - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:486a0b429c5006359d6ab0138383a6f762a50aa8a310997ad18d003d6fffaf74aeaf846445569cd18a9cb56006f6fae355b75a7a4eeb52e74f8179611c47585f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173160/cdc_173160_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.67 MB ]