Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 75-1-194: Storm Products Company: Palo Alto, California

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• Personal Author:
  Okawa, Melvin T.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Based on environmental and other measurements, a potential health hazard from vinyl-chloride (75014) is determined to exist in the extrusion area in a plastics manufacturing company (SIC-3079). NIOSH recommends that the employer reduce airborne concentrations of vinyl-chloride to levels not detectable by the recommended method, and that any employee exposed to measurable concentrations of vinyl- chloride should wear an air supplied respirator or other NIOSH- approved respirator. The federal standard of 1.0 ppm is not applicable since NIOSH does not approve any threshold limit for carcinogenesis. Vinyl-chloride is suspected as an etiological agent in the development of angiosarcoma of the liver. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Carcinogens Liver Neoplasms Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Plastics Polymers Safety Ventilation Vinyl Chloride
• Keywords:
  Etiology Extrusion Finished Cables Hazard-Confirmed HHE-75-1-194 Liver-cancer Liver-disorders Monomers NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication OSHA Region 9 Personal-protective-equipment Plastics-industry Sarcomas Threshold-limit-values Vinyl Chloride

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE751194
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Palo Alto (CA) ; OSHA Region 9
• 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:
  4 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00039603
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-249374
• 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 75-1-194, 1975 May ; :1-4
• CAS Registry Number:
  Vinyl chloride (CAS RN 75-01-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3079 - Miscellaneous Plastics Products - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:622b1186c110bb573e57483530d349e5607948ee525858eb78423f7c04028871893b23bb6d5d5b0aa780bcbe27154d198865b54aeba1bdee32474986940314f8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174076/cdc_174076_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 749.94 KB ]