Survey for n-nitroso compounds at Uniroyal, Chicopee Falls Plant, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, September 22, 1978
Environmental samples were collected on September 22, 1978 to determine the workers' exposures to N-nitroso compounds, especially airborne volatile nitrosamines, at the Uniroyal tire factory in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. The area air samples contained N-nitrosomorpholine (NMOR) ranging from 0.03 to 0.6 micrograms per cubic meter, N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) ranging from 0.03 to 0.2 micrograms per cubic meter, and N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) ranging from 0.13 to 1.4 micrograms per cubic meter. The process air samples contained NMOR ranging from 0.73 to 22.0 micrograms per cubic meter. High nitrosamine concentrations were associated with heating and increasing the surface of the rubber stock. Two unknown compounds were detected and determined not to be N-nitroso compounds, but acted like O-nitroso compounds.
- Research Organization:
- National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6587928
- Report Number(s):
- PB-89-120182/XAB; IWS-072.31
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
AIR POLLUTION
AMINES
CARCINOGENS
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
INDOOR AIR POLLUTION
INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE
INDUSTRY
INSPECTION
MATERIALS
MEDICINE
NITROSO COMPOUNDS
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
RUBBER INDUSTRY
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