Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report 72-108: Electronics Corporation of America: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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• Alternative Title:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report 72-108-46: Electronics Corporation of America: Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Personal Author:
  Polakoff, Phillip L. ; Vandervort, Robert
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Evaluation of hazards from exposure to diesel and gasoline engine exhaust gases emanating from an indoor loading dock facility in an electronics company. Exhaust gas emissions evaluated include carbon- monoxide (630080), nitric-oxide, and nitrogen-dioxide (10102440), the 8-hour time weighted average concentrations of which are indicated as 50, 25, and 5 ppm respectively. Environmental and medical investigations show that the gases are not toxic at the concentrations measured. Symptoms of gas poisoning include neurologic changes, headaches, dizziness, hemorrhage in the kidney, spleen or liver, blood poisoning, impaired senses, nausea, vertigo and alazia. Safety measures include installation of improved ventilation control, strict control of truck engine running time, and modification of the new exhaust system to afford adequate control of emissions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  Original title is missing part of the report number – full number is shown in alternate title
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Automobiles Blood Hazardous Substances Hematologic Diseases Kidney Diseases Liver Nervous System Diseases Nitrogen Oxides Occupational Health Safety Urogenital Diseases Urogenital System Vehicle Emissions Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-quality-control Automotive-exhausts Blood-disorders Carbon Monoxide Diesel Exhaust Gasoline Engine Exhaust Hazards-Unconfirmed HHE-72-108-46 Kidney-disorders Liver-disorders Loading Dock MAC Nervous-system-disorders NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication Nitric Dioxide Nitric Oxide Nitrogen-oxides OSHA Region 1 Symptomatology TLV Toxic-gases

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7210846
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; Cambridge (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:
  35 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027261
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-229237
• 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 72-108-46, 1973 Jun ; :1-33
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Nitrogen dioxide (CAS RN 10102-44-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1973
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:688f90f966e42dbf167b07e9a4bad605676fbd1734d45eb6377f0a8c276564bca1b40bae77aa8f3d6a9043aa053dbfc5d54893fc74d509f7d8c6a62e36cbc7c1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174188/cdc_174188_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.06 MB ]