Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 75-26-245: Babcock and Wilcox Company: Canton, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Gilles, Dawn M. ; Rostand, Robert A.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  On the basis of environmental sampling and employee interviews, no health hazard from exposure to 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1299894), toluene (108883), xylene (108383), methyl-isobutyl-ketone (108101), kerosene (8008206) and mineral spirits is found to exist within the worksite areas of the Babcock and Wilcox Company (SIC-3433), Canton, Ohio, at the time of the evaluation. The company is engaged in the manufacture of power generation equipment and boiler fabrication. Personal protection is recommended for employees in the catapult area where mineral spirit are sprayed onto the catapult cylinders. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hazardous Substances Hydrocarbons Methyl N-Butyl Ketone Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Safety Solvents Toluene Trichloroethanes Ventilation Xylenes

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• Keywords:
  1,1,1-Trichloroethane Aromatic-hydrocarbons Boiler Fabrication Chlorinated-hydrocarbons Hazards-Unconfirmed HHE-75-26-245 Kerosene Methyl Isobutyl Ketone Mineral Spirits NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Organic-solvents OSHA Region 5 Personal-protective-equipment Power Generation Equipment Toxic-substances Toxic-vapors Xylene

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7526245
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Canton (OH) ; OSHA Region 5
• 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. ; Burroughs, G. Edward ; Morrison, John
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00051773
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-249425
• 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 75-26-245, 1975 Dec ; :1-11
• CAS Registry Number:
  1,1,1-Trichloroethane (CAS RN 71-55-6) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; m-Xylene (CAS RN 108-38-3) ; Methyl isobutyl ketone (CAS RN 108-10-1) ; Kerosene (CAS RN 8008-20-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3433 - Heating equipment, except electric - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:158e763966825aaae219aaf8c97daa54e6e4a2cdbd2adbe07022193bfdd35d0a1192c378935aa40a502d519ffffdb3bb8e0f788568e050a7678e6289672e026b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174032/cdc_174032_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.40 MB ]