Health Hazard Evaluation Report 72-86-38: Gates Rubber Company: Denver, Colorado

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• Personal Author:
  Gunter, Bobby J. ; Lucas, James B.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental survey and medical evaluation of employees in a rubber hose manufacturing facility, indicating that air concentrations of styrene (100425), toluene (108883), vinyl pyridine (1337811), toluene-2-diisocyanate (584849), formaldehyde (50000), butadiene (106990), methyl chloroform (71556), and resorcinol (108463) are below hazardous levels. Reported symptoms include sore throat, burning or itching eyes, cough, tiredness, running nose, numbness or tingling sensations, and redness of eyes. Potential toxic hazards are considered possible for the future. Recommendations include recordkeeping of formulations used, employee information on hazards, reporting of exposures, industrial hygiene evaluation of all chemicals used, and request for health hazard evaluation if complaints occur. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Chemistry Environmental Monitoring Eye Diseases Fatigue Hazardous Substances Isocyanates Lung Occupational Health Polymers Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Rubber Safety Sense Organs Solvents

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• Keywords:
  Air-contaminants Air-quality-measurement Braided Hose Chemical-processing Elastomers Eye-disorders Eye-irritation Hazards-Unconfirmed HHE-72-86-38 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication Organic-solvents OSHA Region 8 Respiratory-irritation Respiratory-system-disorders Rubber-industry Toxic-substances Volatile Organic Compounds

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE728638
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Denver (CO) ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DTS - Division of Technical Services
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  16 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Burton, David J. ; Bloom, Thomas F. ; Arell, Paul ; Hendricks, Russell E. ; Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027251
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-229508
• 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 72-86-38, 1973 Apr ; :1-14
• CAS Registry Number:
  Styrene (CAS RN 100-42-5) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; Vinyl-pyridine (CAS RN 1337-81-1) ; 2,4-Toluene diisocyanate (CAS RN 584-84-9) ; Formaldehyde (CAS RN 50-00-0) ; 1,3-Butadiene (CAS RN 106-99-0) ; 1,1,1-Trichloroethane (CAS RN 71-55-6) ; Resorcinol (CAS RN 108-46-3)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1973
• NORA Priority Area:
  Respiratory-system-disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:941846382caa0fe2373007e8eefd58630981ad66cb4b3b7c9c87b4e550ba2952312f477dc5129a05bcab0690bebe7451f8d408b3886dbb65e3bc4b999090a0e0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174197/cdc_174197_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.10 MB ]