Field Survey of Rohm and Haas Company at the Bridesburg Facilities, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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• Personal Author:
  Donaldson, Harry M. ; Johnson WM ; Spiegel RM
• Description:
  Worker exposures to chloromethylether (542881) (CME) and bis(chloromethyl)ether (542881) (BCME) during CME production were evaluated at the Bridesburg facilities of the Rohm and Haas Company (SIC-2869) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 1, 1972. The Bridesburg facilities employed approximately 2,100 workers. A gas chromatographic monitoring system was used for workplace air monitoring of BCME. Preemployment examinations were provided, annual check ups were encouraged, a sputum cytology program was instituted to detect lung cancer, and a retrospective mortality study was conducted. An 8.17 percent lung cancer death rate in past and present company personnel was in excess of the expected 4 to 5 percent. Three cases of lung cancer in employees under 40 years of age were reported. These employees had worked in the same building where chloromethylation processes were in operation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Preceptorship Safety Staff Development Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Chemical-manufacturing-industry Control-methods Field-Study Health-services Health-surveys Industrial-processes IWS-33-13 NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Occupational-health-programs Region-3 Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Industry Wide Field Studies
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DFSCI - Division of Field Studies and Clinical Investigations
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00111147
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-162561
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1972 May; :1-9
• CAS Registry Number:
  Chloromethyl ether (CAS RN 542-88-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1972
• 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-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/233733/cdc_233733_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]