Report on environmental health hazards at the Atlanta Pesticide Pollution Laboratory Atlanta, Georgia.

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• Personal Author:
  Lynch, Jeremiah R.
• Description:
  Unsafe practices in handling solvents and highly toxic pesticides in various analysis operations are reported for a laboratory housed in an office building, which is also cited for inadequate ventilation and air conditioning for laboratory use, and for supplied air laboratory hoods not functioning properly. Recommendations include re-design and improvement of heating and air conditioning systems, and laboratory hoods to provide sufficient makeup air and dilution ventilation; performance of all operations involving pesticides or benzene, chloroform, acetonitrile, and carbon tetrachloride under hoods, substituting hexane, xylene, or other less toxic solvents for benzene when possible; discontinuance of oral pipetting of pesticides and solvents; tight sealing of containers; use of gloves; proper disposal of pesticides and solvents, without release of vapors to the room atmosphere; and briefing of new employees on hazards and safety precautions. With the named compounds, threshold limit values are given for petroleum ether (naptha), ethyl ether, methanol, dieldrin, and, with LD-50 values, toxaphene, lindane, parathion, chlordane, and DDT. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Hydrocarbons Insecticides Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Solvents Ventilation Waste Management

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• Keywords:
  Toxic-substances; Organic-solvents; Toxic-gases; Chlorinated-hydrocarbons; Insecticides; Personal-protective-equipment; Exhaust-ventilation; Air-contaminants; Air-quality-control; TLV; Analytical-techniques; Ventilation-systems; Environment-control; Waste-disposal; Safety-measures; Ceiling-limits; MX8017343; MX8001352; MX8030306; MX8031069
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-13
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00020361
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1963 Nov; :1-13
• CAS Registry Number:
  1,2,4,5,6,7,8,8-Octachloro-2,3,3a,4,7,7a-hexahydro-4,7-methano-1H-indene (CAS RN 57-74-9) ; 110-54-7 ; Acetonitrile (CAS RN 75-05-8) ; Benzene (CAS RN 71-43-2) ; Carbon tetrachloride (CAS RN 56-23-5) ; Chloroform (CAS RN 67-66-3) ; DDT (CAS RN 50-29-3) ; Dieldrin (CAS RN 60-57-1) ; Diethyl ether (CAS RN 60-29-7) ; Lindane (CAS RN 58-89-9) ; Methanol (CAS RN 67-56-1) ; Parathion (CAS RN 56-38-2) ; p-Xylene (CAS RN 106-42-3)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1964
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, Report No. TR-12, 13 pages, 5 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/241701/cdc_241701_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]