Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 73-173-244: Borden Chemical Company: Leominister, Massachusetts

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• Personal Author:
  Polakoff, Phillip L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Some workers exposed to the enzyme trypsin are found to have developed allergic sensitization. Episodic exposure to trypsin (9002077) is found to result in respiratory impairment in those employees who have become sensitized and mild upper respiratory tract irritation among other workers who have not become sensitized. Workers engaged in the handling of the surfactant Nekal B-78 (SIC- 2819) periodically experience upper airway irritation, gagging and shortness of breath: the problem is found to be the result of poor work practices. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Dust Hypersensitivity Lung Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Respiratory System Safety Trypsin
• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Allergic Sensitization Allergies Chemical-manufacturing-industry Hazards-Confirmed HHE-73-173-244 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation OSHA Region 1 Pulmonary Function Test Surfactant Trypsin

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE73173244
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Leominister (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:
  12 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00051763
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-249424
• 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 73-173-244, 1975 Dec ; :1-12
• CAS Registry Number:
  Trypsin (CAS RN 9002-07-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2819 - Industrial inorganic chemicals, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c27d357cbe385ce92abcca98c211290d91d6a238d3b98bcf245b7264bfb9a00a3066db214ef21105f88f57b4269734f7e99f74f21ea55d8ff66a1467c5a52030
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174042/cdc_174042_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.63 MB ]