Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report HE 77-92-541: Packard Electric, Division of General Motors Corporation: Warren, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Price, James H.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Employee exposures to thermal decomposition products from injection and extrusion molding of thermoplastics were evaluated on November 14 to 16, 1977, at Packard Electric, Division of General Motors Corporation (SIC-3079), Warren, Ohio. An evaluation request came from an authorized representative of employees on behalf of approximately 200 affected workers. About 25 percent of the workers interviewed reported respiratory and eye irritations, headache and nausea. Thermogravimetric analyses showed that all samples began to lose weight at approximately 250 degrees C and by 900 degrees C, all samples had lost at least 83 percent of their initial weight. Excluding benzene (71432), concentrations of airborne contaminants were well below applicable OSHA standards. Measurements of significant benzene concentrations were attributed to interference in testing. The author concludes that workers are not exposed to hazardous chemical concentrations. Proper temperature and hold times should be maintained and adequate ventilation should be provided. Employees should be removed from the work area in the event of press overheating. Hot plastic scrap should be properly disposed of, and decomposition data should be obtained for the acrylic purging compound. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aldehydes Environmental Monitoring Formaldehyde Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Surveys Occupational Health Phthalic Acids Plastics Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Acrolein Air-sampling Ammonia BHT Hazard-Unconfirmed Headache Health-survey HHE-77-92-541 Hydrogen Chloride Injection Molding Medical-monitoring Medical-screening Miscellaneous-plastics-products Mucous Membrane Irritation Nausea NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 5 Phthalates Plastic Plastics-industry Thermosetting-plastics Upper Respiratory And Eye

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7792541
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Warren (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:
  31 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Burroughs, G. Edward ; Evans, William A. ; White, Gary L. ; Ollinger, William ; Grote, Ardith A. ; Lange, Bruce ; Morris, Linda
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00101017
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-143976
• 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 77-92-541, 1978 Nov ; :1-31
• CAS Registry Number:
  Benzene (CAS RN 71-43-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3079 - Miscellaneous Plastics Products - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:76ecc0ae5a62eee91841bb1ffa4e3cf0c9bdb7625c7a37331bdc93c75cabd56c28171aae4dc3ae73739bd3a2cf1e1bea71f35485a3b81b8c6b3afcd314e85f6d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173581/cdc_173581_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.17 MB ]