Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report HE 78-45-483: Dove's Exxon Station: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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• Personal Author:
  White, Gary L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  An evaluation has been made of exposure to carbon-monoxide (630080) (CO) in a typical gas station (SIC-5541) with two service islands and three inside repair bays. The facility performs routine maintenance and repair on automobiles. The work load at such stations is extremely variable and no particular service could be considered as routine. A calibrated continuous monitoring CO Ecolyzaer was set up on the workbench at approximately the midpoint of the shop at approximately 1 meter above the floor. Personal samples were obtained by clipping the detector tubes to the workers' collar to approximate their breathing zone. Instantaneous general area measurements for CO and oxides-of-nitrogen (10024972) (NOx) were made with Draeger gas detector tubes. Temperature and relative humidity measurements were obtained. Private interviews with employees were conducted and nondirected medical questionnaires were compiled. It has been determined, based on environmental evidence and reported symptomatology, that a hazard to the health of workers exposed to CO existed. The evaluation revealed that there is no exhaust ventilation and once an automobile is driven inside and turned off, the levels of CO as determined by area measurements exceeded the recommended standard, and it takes hours for the levels to finally drop below the recommended criteria. Personal samples for CO and estimates of carboxyhemoglobin were also in excess of recommended limits. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Automobiles Environmental Monitoring Headache Occupational Health Safety Vehicle Emissions Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-sampling Automobile Automobile-repair-shops Automotive-emissions Carbon Monoxide Exhaust-gases Gases Gas Station Hazard-Confirmed HHE-78-045-483 Industrial-hygiene NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Occupational-health OSHA Region 3 Service Island

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE78045483
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; Harrisburg (PA) ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  9 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Morris, Linda
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00080152
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-197468
• 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 78-045-483, 1978 Apr ; :1-9
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Nitrous oxide (CAS RN 10024-97-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  5541 - Gasoline service stations - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9eb67fd845090f94eb704f1282118ffbb080b089f09b52f07b0819b5044f1bec707b44050ea8c0307c226240f6127a458d992a230f5a7f2416bebae7a22e1bde
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173824/cdc_173824_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.47 MB ]