Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. HHE 79-1-554: La Salle College: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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• Personal Author:
  Chrostek, Walter J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental surveys were conducted on October 19, 1978, to evaluate employee exposures to lead (7439921) fumes, carbon monoxide (630080), and nitrogen dioxide (10102440) gases in the indoor firing range at La Salle College (SIC-9711) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The evaluation was requested by an authorized representative of the Department of Military Science on behalf of the approximately two affected employees. Personal air lead samples ranged from 319 to 583 micrograms per cubic meter and general air lead samples ranged from 511 to 791, exceeding the 200 micrograms per cubic meter OSHA standard. Concentrations of carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide were below their respective evaluation criteria. The author concludes that a health hazard did exist due to exposures to lead. The author recommends that an extensive ventilation system be installed and maintained, that appropriate sound proofing measures be taken to minimize sound levels, that cleanup be done using vacuum cleaning equipment and respirators, that instructors be monitored for blood lead concentrations and be rotated with other duties periodically, and that eating, drinking, and smoking in the range be prohibited. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Blood Environmental Monitoring Ergonomics Hematologic Tests Laboratories Lead Occupational Health Safety Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-monitoring Air-sampling Carbon Monoxide Environmental-engineering Firing Range Hazard-Confirmed Hematology HHE-79-1-554 Lead-fumes Lead Fumes NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Nitrogen Dioxide OSHA Region 3 Sanitation

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE791554
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; Philadelphia (PA) ; 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:
  8 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; DiCostanza, Michelle
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00101031
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-143042
• 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 79-1-554, 1979 Jan ; :1-8
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Nitrogen dioxide (CAS RN 10102-44-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9711 - National security - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b0148c73b598ec2d04295685bdbda4a3f1d6b19ec8c4e666cc93241fe4c96338f3ad6046f59680fc920c1a20f14d36fbe469d147ecc6b027b68cac0cf2744b80
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173567/cdc_173567_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.48 MB ]