Health Hazard Evaluation Determination HE 78-22-732: Hermetic Aircraft Instrument Corp.: 200 Marine Avenue, Farmingdale, New York 11735

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• Personal Author:
  Fannick, Nicholas L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental surveys were conducted on March 15 and October 24, 1978, to evaluate employee exposure to mercury (7439976) vapor and to solvent vapors of naphtha (8030306) hexane (110543) and heptane (142825) at the Hermetic Aircraft Instrument Corporation (SIC-3728) in Farmingdale, New York. The evaluation was requested by a representative of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District number 15, on behalf of an unspecified number of workers. No mercury vapor was detected in the breathing zones of the workers. Airborne concentrations of solvent vapors ranges from 130 to 275 parts per million (ppm), below the OSHA standard of 500 ppm. The author concludes that no hazard from exposure to mercury or solvent vapors existed at the time of survey. Care should be taken while spraying aircraft parts, exhaust fans should be in operation while spraying is in progress, the exposure time of spraying operations should be limited to less than 4 hours per day, and the work benches should be treated with a mercury absorption compound. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Solvents Surveys And Questionnaires Ventilation Workplace
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Altimeter Testing Hazard-Unconfirmed Health-surveys HHE-78-22-732 Industrial-hygiene Mercury Vapor Naphtha NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 2 Safety-measures Solvent Vapors Worker-health Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7822732
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; Farmingdale (NY) ; OSHA Region 2
• 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:
  6 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00103565
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-167835
• 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, HHE 78-22-732, 1980 Aug ; :1-6
• CAS Registry Number:
  Mercury (CAS RN 7439-97-6) ; Petroleum ether (CAS RN 8030-30-6) ; n-Hexane (CAS RN 110-54-3) ; n-Heptane (CAS RN 142-82-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3728 - Aircraft parts and equipment, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:13e434a7c4e530ee126a95527f0e1ba442675fd23704b613a8e0ab2a97443b99b6a57f4fece22aa9c869ad199eb3101632db6fa5c4f0e787d3049fc50e972f61
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173510/cdc_173510_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.15 MB ]