Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Reports 76-67 and 77-30-405 Fischer and Porter Company: Warminster, Pa

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• Personal Author:
  Straub, Wesley E.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A Health Hazard Evaluation investigation was conducted by NIOSH at the Fischer and Porter Company, in Warminster, Pa., on June 14-15 and March 10 and 31, 1977, acting on a request from an authorized employee representative regarding dizziness and nausea at the force motor assembly and gluing operations, and drying of nostrils in the area of "Heliweld Automatic, MIC/TIG welder". Interviews of about 20 affected employees and observations of working conditions revealed that employees were not exposed to toxic concentrations of organic vapors in the force motor assembly area. Potentially toxic exposures to ozone (10028156) were noted at the automatic MIG/TIG welding operation in the welding department. Recommendations are made for improved exhaust ventilation, air monitoring for ozone and periodic medical examinations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Acetone Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Ozone Safety Solvents Toxicology Ventilation Welding

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• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Arc-welding Force Motor Assembly Hazard-Unconfirmed Industrial-plants MIG/TIG Welding NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Organic-solvents Organic Vapors OSHA Region 3 Toxic-chemicals

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7730405
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; Warminster (PA) ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  11 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Hudson, Steven L. ; Grote, Ardith A.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00072187
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-274226
• 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 76-67 and HHE 77-30-4051977, Jul ; :1-11
• CAS Registry Number:
  Ozone (CAS RN 10028-15-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4b53db6da6bc52b76c180abf2ff1744f2d8e959bd360767e5feb5fec1077d31d4b36bdc23d0949ad2a5cad0f2fa950266ab39bea7203e502b56f5cb8d7798dbb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173924/cdc_173924_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.92 MB ]