Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 74-106-223: McGraw Edison Company: Canonsburg, Pa.

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• Personal Author:
  Rostand, Robert A. ; Straub, Wesley E.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Investigation of the working conditions at the McGraw Edison Company, in Canonsburg, Pa., revealed that employee exposures to oil mist and additives in the test area of the transformer assembly buildings were not toxic under conditions noted during the evaluation of the work place. This determination was based on analysis of air samples, results of non-directed worker interviews, observation of work practices and personal communications with the transformer oil refining company. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Electricity Environmental Monitoring Isonipecotic Acids Mineral Oil Occupational Health Petroleum Safety Skin Toxicology Ventilation
• Keywords:
  2,6 Ditertiary Butyl-4-methyl Phenol Additives Air-quality-measurement DBPC Electric-power-plants Electrical-industry Insulating-oil Mineral-oils Mineral Oil NIOSH-Author Oil Mist Petroleum-distillates Transformer Assembly

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE74106223
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania ; Canonsburg (PA) ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  8 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Rushing, David E. ; Holt, J.C. ; Perkins, James B.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00049984
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-249403
• 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 74-106-223, 1975 Sep ; :1-8
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f915adfbe9da8f48ad17d766335c3df7a883b2aa1421f8833c9d92b7a81826910dcf441ec12cacc6de196a1bdc700cf2cff3cb41b3b98e3f0eb680aa0fe8b4b0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174054/cdc_174054_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.44 MB ]