Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 73-72-155: Inland Manufacturing Division, General Motors Corporation: Vandalia, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Ruhe, Raymond L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental and medical evaluations reveal no hazard from methyl- ethyl-ketone (78933), methyl-isobutyl-ketone (108101), toluene (108883), N-butyl-acetate (123864), xylene (1330207) and cyclohexanone (108941) at the vinyl paint lines manufacturing automobile instrument panel pads. Airborne concentrations of the organic vapors are well below toxic levels, and employees report no significant symptoms of intoxication. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Butanones Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety Solvents
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Environmental-contaminants Hazards-Unconfirmed HHE-73-72-155 MEK Methyl Ethyl Ketone Methyl Isobutyl Ketone MIBK N-buty1 Acetate NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication Organic-solvents OSHA Region 5 Toluene Toxicity Vinyl Xylene Cyclohexanone

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7372155
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Vandalia (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:
  5 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Ramos, Henry ; Kurimo, Robert W.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00028621
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-246449
• 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 73-72-155, 1974 Nov ; :1-5
• CAS Registry Number:
  Methyl ethyl ketone (CAS RN 78-93-3) ; Methyl isobutyl ketone (CAS RN 108-10-1) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; n-Butyl acetate (CAS RN 123-86-4) ; Xylene (CAS RN 1330-20-7) ; Cyclohexanone (CAS RN 108-94-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:85dd31286111f959614fa4f92a00d53a005ae27cb74a52edab502fcc30876480bd484fcc52a53f76f39bcea9c8977fbd8344e977a7a23698401397b17cd85e38
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174115/cdc_174115_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 960.84 KB ]