Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 78-8-534: Chilton Metal Products: Chilton, Wisconsin

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• Personal Author:
  Bryant, Charles J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental and medical surveys were conducted on December 14, 1977, April 18 to 20, 1978, and May 18, 1978, to evaluate employee exposure to potentially toxic substances at Chilton Metal Products (SIC-3291) in Chilton, Wisconsin. The evaluation was requested by an authorized employee representative on behalf of the 300 affected employees. Carbon-monoxide (630080) concentrations ranged from 41 to 118 parts per million (ppm) for short term detectors and from 25 to 106ppm for long term detectors, exceeding the 50ppm OSHA standard. Chlorodifluoromethane (75456) (Freon-22) concentrations ranged from 2,906 to 3,146ppm, exceeding the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienist standard of 1,000ppm. All other environmental samples were below their respective criteria. The author concludes that workers are exposed to hazardous concentrations of carbon-monoxide. The Freon-22 concentrations present a potential exposure hazard. The author recommends that exposure to carbon-monoxide be reduced through conversion of gasoline powered lift trucks to low pressure gas or the use of catalytic converters, that the ventilation system be modified, that an exhaust ventilation system be completed at the bottled gas filling apparatus, and that present exhaust ventilation systems be changed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Dust Environmental Monitoring Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Surveys Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  2-butoxyethanol Air-contamination Air-sampling Airborne-dusts Benzene Butyl Alcohol Carbon Monoxide Chlorodifluoromethane Control-methods Hazard-Confirmed Health-survey HHE-78-8-534 Industrial-hygiene Industrial-processes Lawn-and-garden-equipment Lead Medical-monitoring Methyl Acetylenepropadiene (MAPP Gas) NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 5 Oxides Of Nitrogen Propane Sec-butyl Alcohol Toluene VM&P Naptha Xylene

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE788534
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Wisconsin ; Chilton (WI) ; 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:
  19 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Salisbury, Stanley A. ; Kramkowski, Richard S. ; Wisseman, Charles L. ; Richmond, Elizabeth D.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00101012
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-143646
• 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 78-8-534, 1978 Oct ; :1-19
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Chlorodifluoromethane (CAS RN 75-45-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3291 - Abrasive products - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ef6cc3f93b0f411a260ccae7b564427e134d691b28cfa37dd68c6220604ae7ae0d1e26806333a106f3a858b6fc6f7e12d908cc3985770a48ed7af2fc1658040b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173586/cdc_173586_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.17 MB ]