Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 75-197-289: The Foxboro Company: Foxboro, Massachusetts

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• Personal Author:
  Gilles, Dawn M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Toxicity determination in the Foxboro Company (SIC-3555), Foxboro, Massachusetts, shows that the printing operation using lead (7439921) in the print shop does not constitute a health hazard. Employees' exposures to nuisance dust in the Polish and Snag department are not found to pose a health hazard at the concentrations measured during the evaluation. Exposures to oil mist in the milling operations do not constitute a health hazard. Welders are not exposed to toxic concentrations of welding fumes. No operation is observed to be hazardous. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution Air Pollution, Indoor Butanones Dust Fluorides Hazardous Substances Lead Mercury Occupational Health Paint Safety Sodium Hydroxide Tetrachloroethylene Welding

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• Keywords:
  Air-quality Dusts Epoxy Resin Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-75-197-289 MEK NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication Nuisance Dust Oil Mist OSHA Region 1 Painting Perchloroethylene Polishing Printing Process Control Instrument Manufacturing Spray Painting Toxic-substances Welding Fumes Zinc Chloride

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE75197289
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Foxboro (MA) ; OSHA Region 1
• 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:
  27 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Burroughs, G. Edward ; Hollett, Bruce A.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00057326
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-140222
• 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 75-197-289, 1976 May ; :1-26
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3555 - Printing trades machinery - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6face03718adf8b23d583ac279e2229d1d4f3f7f4508aa85bc99c800f8967d0e079e657402ae1be3450e2c6380fac9a0f60d50d4ee10f309905ca26bdd7c0785
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173986/cdc_173986_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.52 MB ]