Evaluation of eight dry cleaning shops with state-of-the-art control equipment. Report on task 1. Perchloroethylene in dry cleaning shops.

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• Personal Author:
  Burroughs, G. Edward
• Description:
  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) funded a study of control technologies for perchoroethylene (Perc) in the dry cleaning industry to determine the extent of exposure and to gather control and operational information to assist in determining technological feasibility of controlling worker exposure to Perc. The study was designed to determine the extent of exposure of employees and control technology in small and medium sized dry cleaning establishments to provide OSHA with data to be utilized in determining technological feasibility of controlling worker exposure to Perc. This report describes task one of the study, in which dry cleaning plants were selected and data taken to characterize worker exposure levels and control technology for 'fourth generation' closed-loop, dry-to-dry machines (with an integrated, in-line refrigerated condenser and a carbon absorber to recover Perc vapors during the dry cycle); the 'fifth generation' machines, having the same features as a fourth generation machines plus an internal monitor/interlock system to prevent door opening at Perc concentrations above a set level.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Carcinogens Epidemiology Hazardous Substances Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Control-technology Dry-cleaning-industry Dry-cleaning-solvents Exposure-levels Region-2 Region-9
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Control Technology
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-324
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000555
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, ECTB 240-04A, 1999 Apr; :1-324
• CAS Registry Number:
  Tetrachloroethylene (CAS RN 127-18-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:61dd159026c424926c751514da790f6512e922f7d767df7f37194c16b52c2dad5be47dbf8a1ce21b91816b957090a116aa1ed15af3db648e6ccebca5b496bcdc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181003/cdc_181003_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 14.27 MB ]