Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 74-24, 92, 95-246: Uncle Bill's Pick-N-Pay Market, No. 10, 7011 West 130th, Middleburg Heights, Ohio 44212: Madsen's Valu Center, 46 Park Lane, Mankato, Minnesota 56001: Kroger Company, Box 1772, Logan, West Virginia 25601

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• Personal Author:
  Brooks, Stuart M. ; Vandervort, Robert
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Potential hazards in the meat cutting and wrapping departments of three supermarkets (SIC-5423) were evaluated. Meat department employees were interviewed, examined, given preshift and post shift pulmonary function tests, and blood samples were obtained. Environmental sampling for substances emitted by the hot wire cutting of polyvinyl-chloride (9002862) meat wrapping film was conducted. No measurable concentrations of vinyl-chloride (75014) monomer were found in emissions from hot wire cutting of the film. Hot wire cutting of films and thermal activation of price labels release irritants substances into the environment, but breathing zone concentrations are found to be low compared to established standards. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Asthma Asthma, Occupational Blood Food-Processing Industry Hypersensitivity Lung Occupational Health Plastics Polyvinyl Chloride Respiratory Function Tests Respiratory System Safety Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Blood Test Food-packaging Food-processing-industry Food-processing-workers Hazards-Unconfirmed Meat Cutting Meat Wrapping NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 3 OSHA Region 5 Pulmonary-function-tests Pulmonary Function Test PVC Vinyl Chloride Monomer

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7495246
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Minnesota ; West Virginia ; Middleburg Heights (OH) ; Mankato (MN) ; Logan (WV) ; OSHA Region 3 ; 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:
  29 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Ligo, Robert N. ; Rostand, Robert A. ; Polakoff, Phillip L. ; Lapp, N. Leroy
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00051764
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-137517
• 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 74-24-246, HHE 74-92-246, HHE 74-95-246, 1975 Dec ; :1-29
• CAS Registry Number:
  Polyvinyl Chloride (CAS RN 9002-86-2) ; Vinyl chloride (CAS RN 75-01-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  5423 - Meat and Fish (Seafood) Markets - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:01f88c0b853d8db1fc1ba219c6b4564d56c0d953ca538d22da1c56b9b5865a37792c8cb59f3a04b00744f093a404d88e564f2e2ea857ac5badf91b0008d571ed
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174041/cdc_174041_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.12 MB ]