Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 73-30-90: King Seeley Thermos Company: Macomb, Illinois

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• Personal Author:
  Shama, Steven K. ; Vandervort, Robert
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental sampling and medical testing of employees indicates that the concentrations of toluene diisocyanate (584849) in the air of a styrene (100425) container manufacturing plant is potentially toxic to some employees. Sensitive individuals experience mild asthma and hay fever-like symptoms, but no significant decrement of pulmonary function tests. Serological tests reveal that many individuals have been sufficiently exposed to isocyanates to produce measurable levels of antibodies. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asthma Asthma, Occupational Dust Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Hypersensitivity Isocyanates Occupational Health Plastics Respiratory Function Tests Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Toluene

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• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Allergies Asthma Cyanates Foam Hazard-Confirmed HHE-73-30-90 Immunological-tests NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Publication OSHA Region 5 Plastics-industry Pulmonary Function Test Respiratory-function-tests Respiratory-system-disorders Sensitivity Sensitization Serological-analysis TDI Toluene Diisocyanate Toxicity

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE733090
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 5 ; Macomb (IL)
• 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:
  17 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Ruhe, Raymond L. ; Ramos, Henry ; Eddleston, Melvin T. ; Handelsmann, Lawrence ; Lapp, N. L. ; Kurimo, Robert W. ; Connor, William L. ; Perone, Vernon P. ; Hornung, Richard W. ; Amandus, Harlin ; Knutti, Elizabeth ; Lafferty, Hope ; McGinnis, Nancy ; Amandus, Sandra
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027275
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-232565
• 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 73-30-90, 1973 Nov ; :1-19
• CAS Registry Number:
  2,4-Toluene diisocyanate (CAS RN 584-84-9) ; Styrene (CAS RN 100-42-5) ; Toluene diisocyanate (CAS RN 26471-62-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1974
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f1347ca14f45958bfc5fac26c6333a9a34c3e2b61132621eb999fd5ba6fe3823a0bbb4586db916b56ee46b9a1a15855b824e4d69fc6d6c9b395d301d49d36aa2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174174/cdc_174174_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.49 MB ]