Fluorocarbons industrial hygiene survey report at Allied Chemical, Danville, Illinois.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Worker exposures to trichlorofluoromethane (75694) (G11), dichlorofluoromethane (75434) (G12) and carbon-tetrachloride (56235) (CCl4) were surveyed at Allied Chemical (SIC-2869), Specialty Chemical Division, in Danville, Illinois, on March 30 and 31, 1976, and August 23 and 24, 1977. The company employed 44 to 74 workers, and provided medical and industrial hygiene services. In the product manufacturing area, personal exposures to G11, G12 and CCl4 ranged from 3.5 to 39.3, 0.2 to 43.1, and 0.17 to 1.9 parts per million (ppm), respectively. In the product packaging areas, G11 and G12 concentrations ranged from 6.2 to 764.0 and 0.5 to 73.0ppm, respectively; no CCl4 was detected. Current exposure standards are 5600 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/CuM) for G11, 4950mg/CuM for G12, and 720mg/CuM for CCl4. The author recommends continued use of existing engineering controls, better use of enclosures in the packaging area, and use of dry ice to chill sample cylinders.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Heat Stress Disorders Hot Temperature Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Stress, Psychological Temperature
• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Field-Study Health-services Health-surveys Industrial-processes NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Occupational-health-programs Region-5 Workplace-studies
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Industry Wide
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Ohio ; 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:
  1-30
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00107098
• 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, IWS 77-25, 1977 Dec; :1-30
• CAS Registry Number:
  Trichloromonofluoromethane (CAS RN 75-69-4) ; Dichloromonofluoromethane (CAS RN 75-43-4) ; Carbon tetrachloride (CAS RN 56-23-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2869 - Industrial organic chemicals, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3e4671f1e18ef399d51e23edadb04c500702cc44bebe7ad5cdca5e0b8e6fbf87b68b861798c95eeffff0b5067eb82cdac6d60dcb4af4cf9d439fe9d35aced87e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179070/cdc_179070_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.39 MB ]