Hazard Evaluation and Technical Assistance Report No. TA 77-54: Sidal Aluminum Corporation: Springfield, Massachusetts

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• Personal Author:
  Ruhe, Raymond L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A hazard evaluation and technical assistance report of an industrial hygiene survey conducted at the Sidal Aluminum Corporation in Springfield, Massachusetts, is presented. The company manufactures highway signs (SIC-3993). Personal and area samples were collected for isopropyl-alcohol (67630), benzene (71432), toluene (108883), n- butyl-alcohol (71363), xylene (1330207), cellosolve-acetate (9004357), triethylamine (121448), total dust, and nitric-acid (7697372). The airborne concentrations measured for all the contaminants were below the respective environmental criteria. It was concluded that at the time of this survey, employees were not exposed to toxic concentrations of hazardous materials. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Acetates Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution Air Pollution, Indoor Dust Environmental Monitoring Metal Workers Occupational Health Safety Solvents Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-pollution Air-quality-measurement Alcohols Dust-analysis Fumes Hazards Hazards-Unconfirmed Industrial-hygiene Metal-products Metal-spraying Metalworking NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Organic-solvents OSHA Region 1 TA-77-54 Tertiary-amines Vehicles

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Springfield (MA) ; OSHA Region 1
• 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:
  14 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Schutte, Norbert P. ; Ivory, Margaret A.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00080611
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-179748
• 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, TA 77-54, 1978 Mar ; :1-10
• CAS Registry Number:
  Isopropyl alcohol (CAS RN 67-63-0) ; Benzene (CAS RN 71-43-2) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; n-Butanol (CAS RN 71-36-3) ; Xylene (CAS RN 1330-20-7) ; Cellulose acetate (CAS RN 9004-35-7) ; Triethylamine (CAS RN 121-44-8) ; Nitric acid (CAS RN 7697-37-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3993 - Signs and advertising specialities - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:074f417c2daba1f5bea2efcca453f693cd2258fe52763a4b5aad9e7bd91ec4f1a2b9010534e03b27031e0c04dcdfac79e34d98231ef512ffe8bdc5e0cbe30c79
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173817/cdc_173817_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 349.90 KB ]