Health Hazard Evaluation/Toxicity Determination. Report No. HHE-71-7-5: Yoder Locker Plant: Grantsville, Maryland

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• Personal Author:
  Ramos H ; Shama SK ; Flesch, Jerome P.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Environmental samples were analyzed for total smoke dust, acetaldehyde (75070), methyl-formate (107313), acetone (67641), methyl-alcohol (67561), and isopropyl-alcohol (67630) at Yoder's Locker Plant (SIC-2077) Grantsville, Maryland, in January 1972. The survey was requested by an employee concerned over hickory sawdust and smoke exposures. Air samples were analyzed for total dust concentration and for the presence of thermal decomposition products of hickory sawdust. Sound level measurements were also taken. Medical evaluations were performed on some of the workers. Smoke dust concentrations ranged from 0.00 to 1.51 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3) which was below the concentration considered toxic, 15mg/m3. Air samples contained no detectable amounts of acetaldehyde, methyl-formate, acetone, methyl-alcohol, or isopropyl- alcohol. All noise levels were below standards. Symptoms of exposure to hickory smoke included eye and throat irritation and tightness of the chest. The authors conclude that workers do not suffer from residual effects from these exposures. However, the smoke house should be properly sealed and the ventilation system upgraded, capable of exhausting any buildup of smoke in adjacent rooms.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Airborne-particles Dust-analysis Employee-exposure Hazards-Unconfirmed Health-protection HHE-71-7-5 Industrial-medicine Industrial-ventilation Meat-packing-industry NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation Occupational-exposure OSHA Region 3 Safety-measures

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  1-14
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00133254 ; nn:00027197
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-299077
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE-71-7-5, 1972 May; :1-14
• CAS Registry Number:
  Acetaldehyde (CAS RN 75-07-0) ; Methyl formate (CAS RN 107-31-3) ; Acetone (CAS RN 67-64-1) ; Methyl alcohol (CAS RN 67-56-1) ; Isopropyl alcohol (CAS RN 67-63-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1972
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2077 - Animal and marine fats and oils - (SIC 1987)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172916/cdc_172916_DS1.pdf
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