Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. HHE-76-31-338: Becton-Dickinson: Juncos, Puerto Rico

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Rivera, Raymond O. ; Harrington, Malcolm
• Description:
  Based on the environmental/medical evaluation it has been determined that production workers at the Becton-Dickinson thermometer factory (SIC-3829) in Juncos, Puerto Rico are exposed to potentially toxic concentrations of mercury (7439976) vapor. Mercury vapor concentration measured during this evaluation ranged from less than addition to this, eight cases of clinical mercurialism were diagnosed by the medical officer. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Diagnosis Environmental Monitoring Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mercury Metals Metals, Heavy Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Poisoning Safety Temperature

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• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation; NIOSH-Author; Region-2; HHE-76-31-338; Hazard-Confirmed; Air-quality-measurement; Heavy-metals; Air-contamination; Industrial-plants; Industrial-health; Temperature-measurement-instrumentation; Mercury-poisoning; Metal-poisoning; Exposure-limits; Diagnostic-tests; Control-measures; Medical-examinations; Protective-measures; Air-sampling; Microanalysis
• Source:
  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 76-31-338, 1976 Oct; :1-17
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Case Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Puerto Rico
• 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:
  1-17
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00057318
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-181457
• 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 76-31-338, 1976 Oct; :1-17
• CAS Registry Number:
  Mercury (CAS RN 7439-97-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3829 - Measuring & controlling devices, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173993/cdc_173993_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]