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    1) Two workers at a toluene reclamation facility lost consciousness after a spill released 100 gallons of toluene vapors into the room. 2) Two welders were exposed to welding fumes above the permissible exposure limit without using respiratory protection. 3) Three workers using gasoline powered pressure washers indoors became sick and lost consciousness, with high carbon monoxide levels in their blood.

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    1) Two workers at a toluene reclamation facility lost consciousness after a spill released 100 gallons of toluene vapors into the room. 2) Two welders were exposed to welding fumes above the permissible exposure limit without using respiratory protection. 3) Three workers using gasoline powered pressure washers indoors became sick and lost consciousness, with high carbon monoxide levels in their blood.

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    1) Two workers at a toluene reclamation facility lost consciousness after a spill released 100 gallons of toluene vapors into the room. 2) Two welders were exposed to welding fumes above the permissible exposure limit without using respiratory protection. 3) Three workers using gasoline powered pressure washers indoors became sick and lost consciousness, with high carbon monoxide levels in their blood.

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    Assignment 3: Case Study

    Case Studies
    Evaluate each case study and answer the
    following questions:
    Whats the hazard?
    What the mechanism of action and the resulting injuries
    or illnesses?
    Which OSH standards have likely been
    violated?
    Case Study #1
    Employees of a synthetic fiber manufacturing plant use toluene
    during the extrusion process.
    The toluene is reclaimed in a room twenty feet below ground.
    One of the reclaim tanks overflows, spilling approximately 100
    gallons on to the floor.
    Two workers go down to clean-up the spill and lose consciousness.
    They are rescued by the local Fire Department
    and released following treatment at the local
    hospital.
    Case Study #2
    Two employees at a mobile home manufacturing plant
    spend most of their day arc welding on steel support beams.

    The facility has general exhaust ventilation. Air monitoring


    shows one employee exposed to total welding fumes at 17.4
    mg/m3 (8 hour TWA) and the other exposed at 15.25
    mg/m3.

    No respiratory protection is used.


    Case Study #3
    A subcontractor is hired to pressure wash the inside of a newly
    constructed public storage facility.
    They use gasoline-powered washers.
    After six hours of work, three employees begin to feel sick.
    After one loses consciousness, they call 911 and all three are
    transported to the hospital.
    Blood tests show the three to have carboxyhemoglobin levels of
    27.2%, 24.1% and 18.0%.
    Two employees are transported for hyperbaric O2 treatments and
    released the next day.
    Case Study #4
    Employees at a cement plant routinely (once each week)
    climb into the back of transport trucks to remove cement
    that has hardened.

    This is done using pneumatic hammers and chippers.

    A double strapped dust mask is used, but the company has


    no respirator program.

    Air sampling for one worker shows the following results:


    1200 liters collected, 2.54 mg total dust
    0.42 mg quartz, other forms of SiO2 were ND
    Case Study #5
    Employees at a small furniture plant are responsible for
    stripping the stain from old church pews.
    The pew is placed in a large tub, coated with methylene
    chloride, and hand stripped.
    Air sampling showed employee exposure to be 1223 parts
    per million (ppm).
    Employees use gloves, an apron, and a half-mask respirator
    with organic vapor cartridges.
    The company has not developed a respirator program.

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