Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 77-4-402: A & S Tribal Industries: Poplar, Montana

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• Personal Author:
  Gunter, Bobby J. ; Nelson, Bonita
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A Health Hazard Evaluation investigation was conducted by NIOSH at the A and S Tribal industries, Poplar, Montana, on January 10-12, 1977, acting on a request from plant management to evaluate potential exposures to contaminants generated from the assembly of camouflage netting (SIC-2292) where a previous evaluation revealed a high number of workers with respiratory symptoms and physical signs of respiratory tract effects. Based on environmental and medical evaluations, no apparent health hazard was judged to exists. The evaluation team, 100 affected employees, and plant management agreed that the absence of respiratory illness and worker complaints was due to a new factory humidification system which was not installed at the time of the previous evaluation. Environmental sampling failed to demonstrate any detectable exposures to anti-mildew agents, while medical evaluation, including lung function studies, medical histories, and physical examinations, indicated no apparent health hazards during this evaluation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Antimony Chromium Diagnosis Environmental Monitoring Humidity Lead Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Respiratory Function Tests Safety Textile Industry Toxicology Xylenes

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• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Camouflage Netting Cellosolve Control-measures Diagnostic-tests Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-77-4-402 Industrial-plants NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 8 Respiratory-function-tests Respiratory Tract Effects Textiles-industry Tin Vinyl Acetate Vinyl Chloride (VC) Xylene

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE774402
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Montana ; Poplar (MT) ; OSHA Region 8
• 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:
  13 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Schutte, George R. ; Philbin, Eileen J.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00072190
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-273707
• 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 77-4-402, 1977 Jun ; :1-13
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2292 - Lace Goods - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8935d2cd93e6ca2d7fcec3276724004d94ed19405206c21ae65ffcb06bcea74d38caf003491be3795fd4fc2fa6fee19ae03405006df52e16613f7978dd302bf4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173921/cdc_173921_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.21 MB ]