Trip report to Seamco Sporting Goods.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Infante P ; Rinsky, Robert C. ; Young RJ
• Description:
  A visit was made to the Seamco Sporting Goods facility for the purpose of determining whether to include this facility in a study of possible hazards resulting from exposure to benzene (71432) on the job. The facility employed about 350 persons, with 260 being involved in the production of small balls, inflated balls, bathing caps, and ball bladders. In April of 1974 the use of benzene at this facility was stopped. Prior to that time benzene had been used in a 50 percent benzene and 50 percent carbon-disulfide (75150) mixture to wash bags at the striking bag bench location, at washing stations in a 12.5 percent benzene solution at the automatic valving machine, at a spray booth where 1 quart of benzene was added to 5 gallons of cement to spray cement the valves, as a solvent in formulation of rubber cement for squash ball cementing, as benzol (71432) added to rubber strips in the compounding room, and as benzol used to wash colostomy bags prior to cementing. The authors conclude that it was not feasible to conduct an environmental/epidemiological study at this facility. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no pdf
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety Solvents
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Survey; Field-Study; Region-1; Solvents; Cleaning-compounds; Organic-solvents
• 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
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00182734
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89130090
• 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 061-13, 1976 Dec; :1-10
• CAS Registry Number:
  Benzene (CAS RN 71-43-2) ; Carbon disulfide (CAS RN 75-15-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• 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/233426/cdc_233426_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]