Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 76-70-367: Sperry-Univac Corporation: Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

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• Personal Author:
  Shoemaker, William E.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Acting on a request from an authorized representative of employees regarding occupational exposure of clerical personnel while working in proximity to office copiers (SIC-9999), including complaints of respiratory and eye irritation, headache, sore throat and fatigue, a Health Hazard Evaluation was conducted by NIOSH in regard to practices and exposures relative to the operation of office copiers in the Sperry-Univac Corporation Buildings, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, on June 2-3 and July 22, 1976. The preliminary detector tube tests at the delivery trays of five of six copiers sampled over approximately ten-minute periods each, identified potentially hazardous atmospheric ozone (10028156) levels in the range 0.05-0.10 part per million parts of air while the machines operated continuously. Based on employee interviews during the study it is concluded that certain employees were exposed to excessive levels of ozone, particularly during fairly continuous operating conditions and during adverse exposure conditions. Recommendations are made for changing the location of some of the copiers, together with provisions for local exhaust ventilation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Eye Foreign Bodies Fatigue Irritants Occupational Health Ozone Safety Toxicology Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Eye-irritants Hazard-Confirmed Headache HHE-76-70-367 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Office-workers Office Copiers OSHA Region 3 Oxidizers Respiratory-irritants Respiratory And Eye Irritation Sore Throat

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7670367
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; Blue Bell (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.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00069417
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-270928
• 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 76-70-367, 1977 Mar ; :1
• CAS Registry Number:
  Ozone (CAS RN 10028-15-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9999 - Nonclassifiable establishments - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dfceeffe22d5ccf238d36679150feb155f82250ae50407f42198a4178f8c7a4f2f31803dce4915aa2d991928408e291b3706f62d75c6dee998252e61d8d4170d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173956/cdc_173956_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.72 MB ]