Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 77-24-366: Kaiser Marine Facility: Vallejo, California

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• Personal Author:
  Okawa, Melvin T.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Acting on a request from an employee representative concerning the possibility of a health hazard due to welding fumes from arc welding on zinc plated or painted steel in confined areas, a Health Hazard Evaluation survey was conducted by NIOSH on January 5, 1977, at the Kaiser Marine facility, for the construction of seagoing vessels (SIC-3731), in Vallejo, California. The alleged health hazard involved welding fumes generated while welders worked inside the columns of a high oil exploratory drilling rig, where welding on paint coated galvanized steel was supposedly carried out without adequate ventilation and safeguards. Based upon the work practices observed and the conditions at the job site at the time of the NIOSH investigation, it was determined that welding fumes probably do not represent a health hazard to the approximately 11 potentially affected machinists. This determination is based upon the best judgement of the NIOSH investigator since the welding job which precipitated the request was already completed and could not be duplicated. None of the mechanics employed at the time of the survey presented any signs or symptoms of welding fume exposure. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Confined Spaces Construction Industry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Metal Workers Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Ships Welding
• Keywords:
  Confined-spaces Construction-Search Employee-exposure Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-77-24-366 Industrial-hazards Machinists Metalworking-industry NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Occupational-exposure Occupational-health OSHA Region 9 Shipbuilding-industry Welding Fume

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7724366
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Vallejo (CA) ; OSHA Region 9
• 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:
  4 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00069425
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-270876
• 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 77-24-366, 1977 Mar ; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3731 - Ship building and repairing - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2af36ec8a7fd677e77dd4c54d5c76dacb38ddf24ec0c3c79cdd2ff6fa1ab4fdafae76852e080f7413b97173d71a0a26b69185120613a791527093329d4b85905
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173948/cdc_173948_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 776.20 KB ]