Health Hazard Evaluation Report 72-68-25: Hazard Evaluation Services Branch, Division of Technical Services: North American Rockwell, Reinforced Plastics Operation: Ashtabula, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Cohen, Steven R. ; Vandervort, Robert
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental survey and medical evaluation of workers in production of reinforced plastics, indicating potentially hazardous exposures to acetone (67641), dimethyl aniline, isobutyl alcohol (78831), isopropyl alcohol (67630), normal butyl acetate (123864), methyl cellosolve (109864), methyl ethyl ketone (78933), methyl isobutyl ketone (108101), methylene chloride (75092), styrene (100425), toluene (108883), xylene (1330207), fiberglass dust, and nuisance dusts. Complaints of workers include headache, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, generalized weakness, chronic fatigue, and skin, nasal, conjunctival and pharyngeal mucosa irritation. Citations and recommendations for improvement are made for local ventilation and general ventilation, safety orientation and training, workplace monitoring, use of respirators, protective clothing, housekeeping and sanitation, safety equipment maintenance, eye protection, warning labels, and health capabilities of the establishment. Toxic properties, chemical properties, and physical properties are given with threshold values for the cited substances. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Butanones Dust Environmental Monitoring Eye Diseases Hazardous Substances Nervous System Diseases Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Plastics Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Safety Management Skin Skin Diseases Solvents

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• Keywords:
  Acetone Air-contaminants Air-quality-measurement Cellosolve Acetate Dust Dust-control Eye-disorders Hazards-Confirmed HHE-72-68-25 Isobutyl Alcohol Isopropyl Alcohol Methylene Chloride Methyl Ethyl Ketone Methyl Isobutyl Ketone Metyl Cellosolve Neurological-disorders NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication Normal Butyl Acetate Organic-solvents OSHA Region 5 Paint Booth Personal-protective-equipment Plastics-industry Respirable-dust Respiratory-system-disorders Safety-measures Sanding Skin-disorders Styrene Synthetic-resins Toluene Toxicity Xylene

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE726825
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Ashtabula (OH) ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  92 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Clark, Ken ; Seferian, S. ; Myers, C. B. ; Bergman, D. ; Hildebrecht, C. ; Lafferty, Mr. ; Barrett, C. ; Scott, Harry ; Sage, D. R. ; Burroughs, S. A. ; Scott, Howard ; Bowen, J. R. ; Fedyk, W. ; Largent, E. ; Allen, Harold ; Barton, J. ; Carlton, P. ; Clayton, G. D. ; Ching-tsen, Bien ; Knarr, R. ; Yae, J. ; Wright, R. ; Long, F. ; Polocoff, Md. ; Rupnick, K.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027244
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-229122
• 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 72-68-25, 1972 Dec ; :1-91
• CAS Registry Number:
  Acetone (CAS RN 67-64-1) ; Isobutanol (CAS RN 78-83-1) ; Isopropyl alcohol (CAS RN 67-63-0) ; n-Butyl acetate (CAS RN 123-86-4) ; 2-Methoxyethanol (CAS RN 109-86-4) ; Methyl ethyl ketone (CAS RN 78-93-3) ; Methyl isobutyl ketone (CAS RN 108-10-1) ; Methylene chloride (CAS RN 75-09-2) ; Styrene (CAS RN 100-42-5) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; Xylene (CAS RN 1330-20-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1973
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0bf620026e632309e7585980afefcd6890aaabfc7c5490ed3032e92c80c90f7828fbda10fa7324cc88ecca1f275857716443c05d60d4b21f824301bbe6745969
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174203/cdc_174203_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.96 MB ]