Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 77-39-400: Fisher Body No. 2 Plant: Grand Rapids, Michigan

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• Personal Author:
  Gilles, Dawn M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A Health Hazard Evaluation investigation was conducted by NIOSH on March 16-17, 1977, at the departments of the Fisher Body No. 2 Plant, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where the sewing of seat covers and interior carpets for automobiles (SIC-2399) takes place. The evaluation was prompted by a request from an authorized employee representative regarding the exposure of approximately 100 affected employees to Typar, a material containing tris-2,3-dibromopropyl- phosphate (126727), and alleged cases of nausea, bitter taste, headache, sore throat, watering eyes and itching. Environmental sampling revealed that a potential hazard exists due to employees exposure to tris-2,3-dibromopropyl-phosphate, which has been also found on the white gloves worn by some employees, on swipe samples taken on employee's hands and on the sewing machine tables, in dust samples collected around the sewing machine needles, and seven of ten breathing zone air samples collected on employees. Since the compound is a suspect carcinogen for man and environmental conditions have not been sufficiently defined to assign a safe exposure level, the presence of the material in the workplace alone indicated a potential health hazard and it is recommended that a substitute be found. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automobiles Carcinogens Dust Environmental Monitoring Flame Retardants Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Organophosphates Safety Skin Toxicology

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• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Automobile Automotive-industry Carpet Chemical-carcinogens Dust-sampling Flame-retardants Hazard-Confirmed HHE-77-39-400 Industrial-plants NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 5 Seat Covers Toxic-chemicals TRIS Tris-2,3-Dibromopropyl Phosphate

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7739400
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; Grand Rapids (MI) ; 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:
  8 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Price, James H.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00072192
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-273723
• 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 77-39-400, 1977 Jun ; :1-8
• CAS Registry Number:
  Tris(2,3-dibromopropyl) phosphate (CAS RN 126-72-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2399 - Fabricated textile products, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1577f7ffe360387b1db681a29d5fc0cf05210c75af31dc77f71bc7d1a08254a5f8ee60dac82501c7e8ccbfaa0831ddb16dbbdbb14744c45c431c0fd6ab2a573e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173919/cdc_173919_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 383.58 KB ]