Hazard Evaluation and Technical Assistance Report No. TA 77-52: Jay Instruments and Specialty Company: Cincinnati, Ohio 45215

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• Personal Author:
  Price, James H. ; Wisseman, Charles L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A Hazard Evaluation and Technical Assistance survey was conducted by NIOSH on July 1 and 6-7, 1977 at the thermometer fabrication (SIC- 3823), assembly, and shipping and receiving areas of the Jay Instruments and Specialty Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. The survey was requested by the management as a follow up to a Health Hazard Evaluation conducted April 1976. Employee exposures to mercury (7439976) were within 80 percent of the NIOSH recommended standard, but there was evidence of continuous increased absorption of mercury as demonstrated by the fact that 4 of 9 24 hour urine specimens showed mercury levels in the 0.050-0.100 milligrams per liter range. Although thus is not generally considered hazardous, it does indicate significant absorption of mercury and points out the need for medical monitoring. The company made significant progress in controlling employee exposure to inorganic mercury, however, additional effort must be made to reduce this exposure by improving ventilation, personal hygiene and work practices, and biological and environmental monitoring. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Mercury Metals, Heavy Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety Temperature Toxicology Urine Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Control-measures Hazard-Unconfirmed Heavy-metals Industrial-hygiene NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Occupational-health OSHA Region 5 Preventive-medicine TA-77-52 Temperature-measurement-instrumentation Urine-chemistry

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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:
  Ohio ; Cincinnati (OH) ; 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:
  22 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00076143
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-278968
• 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 77-52, 1977 Nov ; :1-18
• CAS Registry Number:
  Mercury (CAS RN 7439-97-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3823 - Process control instruments - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:eca8e685c39b0f473c1f0befafba8bff3598ef9f34ef5e708ba2ae4eb38bce624da2e1aa6cb5c3e321c3d9a92fae182fd803016a0d4ea023f4e5709c2350e468
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173851/cdc_173851_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 818.35 KB ]