Industrial hygiene sampling survey report of Photon Power, Inc., El Paso, Texas.

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• Personal Author:
  Briggs T ; Garrison R
• Description:
  Worker exposures to cadmium (7440439), tin (7440315), lead (7439921), toluene (108883) and thiourea (62566) were surveyed at Photon Power, Incorporated (SIC-3674) in El Paso, Texas, from March 13 to 15, 1979, as part of health research studies in photovoltaic solar energy conversion to direct electrical current. A walk through survey had been conducted at this facility on October 31, 1978. The company had 25 production operators. New employees were given physical examinations which included baseline blood cadmium and lead tests. There was no industrial hygienist. The factory manager was the safety and health supervisor. Personal and area air samples were collected and analyzed. Concentrations of cadmium, thiourea, tin and lead ranged from 4.4 to 821, 3.0 to 44.5, 0.5 to 45.3 and 5.0 to 17.1 micrograms per cubic meter, respectively. Toluene concentration was 21 milligrams per cubic meter. Methyl- alcohol (67561) concentrations ranged from 2.5 to 9.3 parts per million. The OSHA standard for cadmium fume was 100 micrograms per cubic meter and was exceeded only once when there was an exposure of 821 micrograms per cubic meter. Other concentrations were below the OSHA standards. There was a potential hazard from ultraviolet radiation during cell subdivision. The authors recommend a review of clean up procedures to reduce cadmium exposures and a study of ultraviolet radiation shielding. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no pdf
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Dust Environmental Monitoring Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Power Plants Preceptorship Safety Staff Development Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Survey; Field-Study; Power-generation; Region-6; Health-surveys; Workplace-studies; Air-contamination; Health-services; Industrial-processes; Control-methods; Occupational-health-programs; Metallic-dusts; Air-sampling
• Series:
  Industry Wide Field Studies
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• 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:
  1-34
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00109858
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82114760
• 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 68-14b, 1979 Jun; :1-34
• CAS Registry Number:
  Cadmium (CAS RN 7440-43-9) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Methanol (CAS RN 67-56-1) ; Thiourea (CAS RN 62-56-6) ; Tin (CAS RN 7440-31-5) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3674 - Semiconductors and related devices - (SIC)
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/233242/cdc_233242_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]