Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 78-56-511: Westclox-Division of General Time Corp.: Peru, Illinois

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• Personal Author:
  Kramkowski, Richard S.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental and medical surveys were conducted on March 27, 1978, to investigate exposure to trichloroethylene (79016) from a degreasing operation in the Fuse Subassembly Department 627 of the Westclox Division of General Time Corporation (SIC-3873), in Peru, Illinois. The investigation was requested by an authorized representative of United Steelworkers of America Union Local 12573 on behalf of 54 affected employees and was prompted by an incident in which a mechanical failure caused at least four persons to be overcome by trichloroethylene fumes. All samples analyzed were below the evaluation criteria. The author concludes that employees were not exposed to toxic concentrations of airborne contaminants. The author recommends that exposures be avoided by proper maintenance, modification and operation of existing equipment and by the education of employees and supervisors regarding the potential hazards of trichloroethylene. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Carcinogens Environmental Monitoring Labor Unions Occupational Health Safety Solvents Trichloroethylene Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Air-contamination Air-sampling Clocks Control-methods Fuses Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-78-56-511 Humans NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 5 Timing Devices Trichloroethylene Unions Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7856511
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Peru (IL) ; 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:
  6 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00099483
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-143901
• 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 78-56-511, 1978 Jul ; :1-6
• CAS Registry Number:
  Trichloroethylene (CAS RN 79-01-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3873 - Watches, clocks, watchcases & parts - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:959c6059bf17877dfb449a055639f507e7d56aecc173edef49ee199ed54bf935d8768acc3065da135a1d9d6bda2148826c7a0244f769f8f09f7d475fda61ab72
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173615/cdc_173615_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.14 MB ]