Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report 71-29-89: John Morrell Company: Sioux Falls, South Dakota

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• Personal Author:
  Polakoff, Phillip L. ; Vandervort, Robert
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Medical evidence obtained during the study of retail meat wrappers, indicates that air contaminants generated by the thermal cutting of polyvinyl-chloride (9002862) packaging films during the wrapping of meat are potentially toxic to some employees, as demonstrated by the large frequency of eye, nose and throat irritation. Pulmonary function tests in a population of meat wrappers reveals no gross pulmonary effects as compared to a control population after one workshift of meat wrapping. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Food-Processing Industry Hazardous Substances Lung Occupational Health Polyvinyl Chloride Respiratory Function Tests Respiratory System Safety Sense Organs Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Eye-irritation Food-processing-industry Hazard-Confirmed HHE-71-29-89 Meat NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication OSHA Region 8 Packaging Films Polyvinyl Chloride Products PVC Respiratory-function-tests Respiratory-irritation Thermal Cutting Toxicity

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE712989
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  South Dakota ; Sioux Falls (SD) ; OSHA Region 8
• 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:
  13 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Gunter, Bobby J. ; Flesch, Jerome P. ; Lapp, N. L. ; Apol, Arvin G. ; Gais, Richard
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027208
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-232578
• 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 71-29-89, 1973 Oct ; :1-13
• CAS Registry Number:
  Polyvinyl Chloride (CAS RN 9002-86-2)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1974
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8f242de95f85de9fb0c0a3cfea74c1dbc61c456a90269cdc84a103ae47c73d21623d540a2be698d456508d6b5c2f317303c29a2ae5da19e5a09f08caa8b7d122
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174233/cdc_174233_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.99 MB ]