Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 76-94-406: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Large Power Transformer Division: Muncie, Indiana 47302

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• Personal Author:
  Hervin, Raymond L. ; Smith, Alexander B. ; White, Gary L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A Health Hazard Evaluation determination was conducted by NIOSH at the Large Power Transformer Division (SIC-3612) of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Muncie, Indiana, on January 18-20, 1977, acting on a request from an authorized employee representative regarding the employees' alleged complaints of skin irritation, infectious running sores, injuries slow to heal, attributed by the workers to some additive in the transformer oil. Environmental air sampling and medical evaluation concluded that employees' exposure to airborne total nuisance particulates, oil mists, and organic vapors did not pose a health hazard at the concentration measured. The majority of the 20 "affected" employees gave a history of apparent dermatitis with the route of exposure being direct contact with the oil which is adherent to surfaces of the transformer as it is assembled. The contention that the transformer oil may contain additives which could be responsible for the apparent toxic manifestations of the oil was not borne out by the investigation. Recommendations are made to alleviate dermatitis problems caused by direct contact with the oil. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dermatitis Electricity Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Skin Skin Diseases Solvents Toxicology Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Acne Air-quality-measurement Dermatitis Electrical-equipment Electrical-industry Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-76-94-406 Industrial-plants Insulating-oil Irritation NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Oil Mists Organic Vapors OSHA Region 5 Skin-disorders Total Nuisance Particulates Toxic-chemicals

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7694406
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; Muncie (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:
  17 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Billets, Stephen ; Holtz, John L. ; Kupel, Richard E.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00072188
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-273722
• 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 76-94-406, 1977 Jul ; :1-17
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3612 - Transformers, except electronic - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3da0b3f08925d5de643348d2d04ea10983e62db6cfbe12833a5b1b3e692972b1192c5805f464c8c01be28fe7fbb207b60a331062f43d5cb0ccd30114b9fba737
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173923/cdc_173923_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.06 MB ]