Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 76-97-430: FMC Corporation - Chain Division: Indianapolis, Indiana

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• Personal Author:
  Hervin, Raymond L. ; Meyer, Channing R.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A Health Hazard Evaluation investigation was conducted by NIOSH on March 28-31, 1977, at the metal chain and gear manufacturing facilities (SIC-3462) of the FMC Corporation, Chain Division, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The evaluation was prompted by a request from an authorized employee representative regarding the exposure of approximately 156 affected employees to large amounts of powdered metal dust. Environmental sampling and employee interviewed concluded that employee exposure to airborne total dusts, oil mists, and solvents and gases did not pose a health hazard. However, the concentrations of airborne nickel (7440020) did pose a potential health hazard to the compacting machine operator and induction machine operators in the gear department and the coupling machine operator in the metal chain department. Employees may be occasionally exposed to smoke and fumes containing significant concentrations of nitrogen (7727379) nitrogen oxides of nitrogen (10102440), carbon-monoxide (630080), and related compounds during malfunctioning of furnace operations. Recommendations are made to improve observed and potential hazards noted during the survey. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Benzene Dust Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Metals, Heavy Metal Workers Nickel Occupational Health Safety Solvents Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Carbon Monoxide Dust-control Fumes Furnace Operations Hazard-Unconfirmed Heavy-metals HHE-76-97-430 Industrial-plants Metal Chain Manufacturing Metallic-dusts Metalworking-equipment NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Nitrogen Dioxide Organic-solvents OSHA Region 5 Oxides Of Nitrogen Smoke Soldering

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7697430
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; Indianapolis (IN) ; 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:
  34 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Geissert, Jack O. ; Ruhe, Raymond L. ; Collins, Clinton ; Haas, Brenda ; Flesch, Jerome P. ; Kim, Walter S. ; Billets, Stephen ; Holtz, John ; Kupel, Richard E.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00074923
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB88-196456
• 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 76-97-430, 1977 Sep ; :1-34
• CAS Registry Number:
  Nickel (CAS RN 7440-02-0) ; Nitrogen (CAS RN 7727-37-9) ; Nitrogen dioxide (CAS RN 10102-44-0) ; Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3462 - Iron and steel forgings - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:44efb5ad100e5974ef3e04426bab32035f80901776ace71e7bcc37dfd7d29d32b707279d2745d943c51f998389c3b22a47edff4586da712e07c64ad4659d9e77
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173917/cdc_173917_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.48 MB ]