Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 78-53-510: Yarter-Tek Corporation: Denver, Colorado

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• Personal Author:
  Gunter, Bobby J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental and medical surveys were conducted on May 3 and 12, 1978, to evaluate exposures associated with the use of a silver- cyanide (506649) (AgCn) electroplating solution at the Yarter-Tek Corporation (SIC-281) in Denver, Colorado. The evaluation was requested by the owner of the company on behalf of six affected employees. Cyanide concentrations were below the laboratory detection limit of 0.001 milligrams per sample. Two general room samples for silver were below the laboratory limit of detection of was 0.04 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3) which exceeded the OSHA criterion of 0.01mg/m3. The author concludes that a health hazard did not exist at the time of the evaluation. The electroplating solution should be kept free of organic debris, all workers should be informed of the hazards of working with cyanide and silver, and workers should not use the electroplating solution unless they are familiar with its operation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Electroplating Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Silver
• Keywords:
  Coatings Cyanide Dentist Electroplating Solution Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-78-53-510 Humans Industrial-inorganic-chemicals Materials-handling NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 8 Safety-training Silver

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7853510
• 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:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Fehrman, Mary M.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00099484
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-143919
• 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 78-53-510, 1978 Jul ; :1-6
• CAS Registry Number:
  Silver cyanide (CAS RN 506-64-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  281 - Industrial Inorganic Chemicals - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7a671cf6e51ed9d29024edb98c36e60a226d8b6062ef8bd6e5d49b16520f1fbacdf3674c9c8340b08f7f159f6fddd988c6e66d5e674372f4ac8d459d802c43fb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173614/cdc_173614_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.04 MB ]