Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report HE 80-99-707: Denver Dry Goods: Denver, Colorado

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• Personal Author:
  Gunter, Bobby J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  An environmental survey was conducted on April 15, 1980, to evaluate lithium (7439932) and lead (7439921) exposures resulting from the repair of the air conditioning system at Denver Dry Goods (SIC-5311) in Denver, Colorado. The evaluation was requested by an operating engineer on behalf of an unspecified number of workers. Exposures to lead and lithium were 0.03 and 0.008 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/cu m), respectively. General room air samples ranged from 0.008 to 0.01mg/cu m for lithium and 0.01 to 0.02mg/cu m for lead. All samples were well within the recommended OSHA concentration of for lithium. The author concludes that no hazardous exposures existed from exposure to lithium and lead. He recommends that smoking, eating, and drinking be prohibited in the work area, that workers wash hands thoroughly before eating, smoking, and snuff usage, that adequate respiratory protection be provided to all workers during the yearly cleaning of the air conditioning heat exchanger, and that workers be given clean clothes at the beginning of each shift. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Metals, Heavy Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Control-methods Department-stores Hazard-unconfirmed Heavy-metals HHE-80-99-707 HVAC Lead Lithium NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 8 Standards Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE8099707
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Denver (CO) ; OSHA Region 8
• 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
• Contributor:
  Schulenberg, Marilyn K.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00102767
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-168551
• 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 80-99-707, 1980 Jul ; :1-6
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lithium (CAS RN 7439-93-2) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  5311 - Department stores - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3365196242b410ba7d68327ab91cc5f07cad49107124f78cae78358ac6687440930d95a64fca3b0095becc8820fe3dc4b8dcc3f7302ad0ff9d068ec7f45f1a11
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173549/cdc_173549_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.04 MB ]