Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. HE 78-63-574: International Harvester: Springfield, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Belanger, Pierre L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental and personal air samples were analyzed for airborne nuisance dusts and welding fumes at the International Harvester Facility, in Springfield, Ohio, on April 11, May 30, June 1, June 22, and August 28 to 31, 1978. In addition, medical questionnaires were given and employees' work practices and engineering controls were observed. An evaluation request came from an authorized representative of the approximately 190 affected workers. None of the samples for airborne nuisance particulate exceeded the OSHA standard of 15 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/CuM). Only one sample taken for unclassified welding fumes exceeded the American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienist's recommended standard of 5.0mg/CuM, and only one sample exceeded the same standard for aluminum welding fumes. Questionnaire results revealed that 66 percent of the 32 respondents occasionally experienced flash burns. The author recommends the use of protective equipment by the welders, installation of ultraviolet radiation barriers, use of fume extracting devices, and reevaluation of the ventilation system in order to achieve optimum performance. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Dust Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Ozone Personal Protective Equipment Radiation Safety Ventilation Welding

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-sampling Control-methods Hazards-Confirmed HHE-78-63-574 Injuries MIG Welding NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Nuisance Dust OSHA Region 5 Protective-measures Standards Welding-industry Welding Fumes Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7863574
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Springfield (OH) ; 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:
  17 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Ollinger, William ; Evans, William A. ; Taft, Richard M. ; Robinson, Ilene L.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00104799
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-145619
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE 78-63-574, 1979 Mar ; :1-17
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:34db44bb114b879d54f8f6bde18f017519f3421e701c6298974f648c473e07c0e88be60eecd52ffb010ad7f4005ac250afbbf9e1f2bd01f2bf85fa64834f9afc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173501/cdc_173501_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.05 MB ]