Health Hazard Evaluation Report 72-33-129: Barker Greeting Card Company: Cincinnati, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Markel, Harry L. Jr. ; Shmunes, Edward
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental survey of the employees of a greeting card manufacturing company through medical interviews and examinations conducted in the flocking department shows that four out of six women display symptoms related either to the skin or the respiratory tract. No evidence is found of necrosis conditions among employees working with glues containing a type of Stoddard solvent, although airborne flock does result in minor mechanical irritation from the deposition of fibers on the body, particularly skin creases. A few individuals with chronic or pre-existing throat and sinus conditions are made worse by the constant deposition of flock high in oral and nasal passages. Recommendations include improvement of dust collection and housekeeping practices, discontinuance of the practice of using compressed air to blow off dust from employees' uniforms, screening out of future potential employees with sinus and throat illness, wearing of long sleeve uniforms in the flocking area, and the use of paper face masks. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Hypersensitivity Irritants Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Safety Management Skin Skin Diseases Solvents Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Allergies Dust-control Hazards-Confirmed HHE-72-33-129 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication Organic-dusts OSHA Region 5 Paper-products Personal-hygiene Personal-protective-equipment Preemployment-examinations Respirable Dust Respiratory Respiratory-protection Respiratory-system-disorders Safety-measures Skin-disorders Skin Irritation Solvents Total Dust

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7233129
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; Cincinnati (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:
  16 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Ramos, Henry ; Zumwalde, Ralph D. ; Kurimo, Robert W. ; Seymour, Martha J. ; Moore, Ceola H. ; Flesch, Jerome P.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027228
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-232752
• 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 72-33-129, 1974 Mar ; :1-15
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1974
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:663bd5345d97a86c6219fdb1ed91e2e4244a77516710f4809a62f570ff3a0899583ea4bf0baf045ec73d1288cbf399a7303f097f07167bb5d617226ad942b7c9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174217/cdc_174217_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.31 MB ]