Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 77-7A & 7B-486: Union Electric Company: St. Louis, Missouri

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• Personal Author:
  Hervin, Raymond L. ; Smith, Alexander B.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  To determine possible hazardous exposure to polychlorinated- biphenyls (1336363) (PCB), a health hazard evaluation of the Union Electric Company, ( SIC-4911) St. Louis, Missouri, was conducted. Breathing zone samples were collected from workers considered to have highest potential risk. Medical evaluations were performed using questionnaire information regarding occupational/medical histories and exogenous exposures (alcohol, tobacco, drugs). Blood and urine tests were performed. At the time of the survey employees were exposed to levels of PCB in excess of the NIOSH recommended standard but below Federal standards for PCB during transformer overhaul operations. A final report of the medical evaluation is forthcoming. In addition, employees were not exposed to toxic levels of trichlorobenzene (87616) or 1,1,1-trichloroethane (71556), during operations involving transformer oils. Herbicide spraying operations at the time of the survey produced no toxic exposures to prophylene-glycol-butyl-ether-esters. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Benzene Biphenyl Compounds Dermatitis Diagnosis Electricity Environmental Monitoring Halothane Hydrocarbons Occupational Health Polychlorinated Biphenyls Safety Skin Solvents Trichloroethanes

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• Keywords:
  1,1,1-Trichloroethane 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Air-contaminants Air-contamination Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Aliphatic Solvent "140 Flash" Benzenes Biphenyls Chlorinated-hydrocarbons Diagnostic-tests Diesel Fuel No. 2 Electrical-industry Halogenated-hydrocarbons Hazard-Confirmed Herbicide Spraying Industrial-hygiene NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Occupational-health Organic-solvents Organic Solvents OSHA Region 7 PCBs Sampling Stoddard Solvent Transformer Oils Trichlorobenzene

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE777A7B486
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Missouri ; St. Louis (MO) ; OSHA Region 7
• 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:
  29 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Jones, Mark ; Ruhe, Raymond L. ; Tanaka, Shiro ; Schloemer, Joann R. ; Berkely, Martin R. ; Schutte, George R. ; Reuss, Barbara ; Nurre, Dorothy E. ; Grote, Ardith A. ; Holtz, John L. ; Bolyard, Michele L. ; Choudhury, Gangadhar ; Kupel, Richard E. ; Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00080916
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-146344
• 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 77-7A-7B-486, 1978 May ; :1-29
• CAS Registry Number:
  Polychlorinated biphenyl(s)-PCB(s) (CAS RN 1336-36-3) ; 1,2,3-Trichlorobenzene (CAS RN 87-61-6) ; 1,1,1-Trichloroethane (CAS RN 71-55-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  4911 - Electric services - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f32922fc96149b5bb960dfad5a50b3cdb45b1c69f8f1b4e9e68fd3461137beebc2afef104c891b5640d6d4819a7473aabb562dff27983fa2968729cbb6d6379a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173811/cdc_173811_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.57 MB ]