Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-81-289-971: Anchor Hocking Corporation; Chester, West Virginia

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• Personal Author:
  Klemme, Jay C. ; Lee, Stephen A.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental and personal air samples were analyzed for toluene (108883), xylene (1330207), methyl-isobutyl-ketone (108101) (MIBK), acetone (67641), isopropanol (67630), and trimethyl-benzene (25551137) at the Anchor Hocking Corporation (SIC-2750), in Chester, West Virginia. An unidentified worker requested the evaluation after experiencing adverse health effects. The 8-hour time weighed exposure to trimethyl-benzene was 29 parts per million (ppm), compared with the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists recommended threshold limit value of 25ppm. Acetone, isopropanol, MIBK, toluene, and xylene concentrations were well below the respective OSHA standards or 1000, 400, 100, 200, and 100ppm. Symptoms of headache, light headedness, eye tearing and redness, throat irritation and exhaustion were reported by the affected worker. The authors conclude that a hazard from overexposure to combined screen printing contaminants, especially trimethyl-benzene, did exist. They recommend engineering controls to reduce exposures, medical and environmental monitoring, and substitution of trimethyl-benzene with a product containing fewer toxic components.
• Subjects:
  Dust Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA81289971
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  West Virginia ; OSHA Region 3
• 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
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00119695
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB83-162412
• 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 81-289-971, 1981 October ; 1-11
• CAS Registry Number:
  Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; Xylene (CAS RN 1330-20-7) ; Methyl isobutyl ketone (CAS RN 108-10-1) ; Acetone (CAS RN 67-64-1) ; Isopropyl alcohol (CAS RN 67-63-0) ; Trimethylbenzene (CAS RN 25551-13-7)
• Editor(s):
  Johnson, Patty
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  275 - Commercial Printing - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:42d351bb7108bd0f03ec77902f8babb9430b7659cce2ea851a0d2a96fff5bb54fb1cffbd9b6d40543c670b49e3d0527a8645be5d52952dab3b63602e6898ad6a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173265/cdc_173265_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.06 MB ]