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THE^^^jr^/cOMPANY TO FROM SUBJECT INTER-ORGANIZATION CORRESPONDENCE Mike Guyer --------S-c^a-t t.--Johnson------- FIELD POINT OR DEPT. & BLDG. NO. FIELD POINT OR DEPT. & BLDG. NO DATE YOUR LETTER DATE THIS LETTER _______________ January _________ Fourth Quarter 1993.- Industrial Hyglene^Slimmarv - Geon Plant. Henry Plant personnel monitoring results for October through December of 1993 are summarized as follows: I. noise: (Geon Exposure Limit 50% dose) (OSHA PEL = 100% dose) NOISE EXPOSURE BY AREA AREA Dryer Bldg. (732) Poly Bldg. (731) Compounding (741) JOB CLASS PVC Bagger Dryer Operator Maintenance Man Leaderman Recovery Operator Maintenance Man Mill operator Packager Relief Operator Henschel Operator Lab Operator NO. OF EXPOSURE MAXIMU NO. OF MONITORINGS AVERAGE EXPOSU MONITORINGS >50%/>100% (% DOSE) (% DOS 2 0/2 164.5 174.0 3 1/2 131.1 158.2 1 0/0 39.0 39.0 1 0/0 3.50 . 3.50 2 1/0 33.0 59.2 2 0/0 29.9 34.5 4 1/3 142.5 215.0 2 2/0 62.1 70.5 2 2/0 88.6 90.1 1 1/0 89.7 89.7 1 0/0 4.00 4.00 NGC 15537 II. VINYL CHLORIDE (OSHA PEL - 1 ppm, 8-HR TWA) During the fourth quarter of 1993 there were 10 monitorings completed for vinyl chloride exposure ( 3 poly/7 dryer). Of the total monitorings, none exceeded 1 ppm and 8 (80%) were below 0.5 ppm. These exposures are summarized below: VINYL CHLORIDE EXPOSURE BY JOB CLASSIFICATION JOB CLASS Tank Farm Operator PVC Bagger Dryer Operator Paste/Losope Charge HRC Polycleaner/Helper NO. OF MONITORINGS 1 4 3 1 1 NO . ABOVE 1 pom 0 0 0 0 0 AVERAGE EXPOSURE (PPin) 0.25 0.26 0.38 0.28 0.69 MAXIMUM EXPOSURE (P 0.25 0.36 0.77 0.28 0.69 III. Nuisance Dust (OSHA Pel total dust 15mg/m3,8-HR TWA) (OSHA Pel respirable dust 5mg/ra3,8-HR TWA) Operators in the Compound building & dryer building were monitored for total dust (unspecified) and Respirable dust (unspecified and PVC) TYPE JOB CLASS AVERAGE MAXIMUM NO of MONITERINGS EXPOSE ma/m1 explosive ma/m3 Respirable PVC Leaderman Dryer Operator Resin Reclaim Oper. PVC Bagger 1 1 1 1 0.18 0.15 0.41 0.92 0.18 0.15 0.41 0.92 Total- Compound Packager Unspecified Compound Henschel Operator 3 2 0.29 0. 17 0.43 0.28 Respirable Compound Henschel Unspecified Operator 2 0.14 0.20 NGC 15538 IV. HEAVY METALS Compound Henschel operators, and compound relief operators were monitored for heavy metal exposure. There were no exposures exceeding the permissable exposure limits. The PEL'S are shown in parenthesis next to the metal name. The number of samples taken is shown in parenthesis next to the average exposure. Heavy Metal Antimony Barium Cadmium Chromium Lead Nickel Zinc (500ug/m3) (0.5mg/m3) ( 5ug/m3) (500ug/ms) ( 50ug/m3) ( lmg/m3) ( 10ug/m3) Henschel Ooer. 0.39ug/m3(2) 0.00mg/m3( 1) 0.06ug/m'(2) 0.47ug/mJ( 1) 0.24ug/m3( 1) 0.0Omg/m3(2) 0.55ug/m3( 1) Relief Qper. 0.45ug/m3( 2) 0.00mg/m3 (1) 0.05ug/m}(2) 0.47ug/mJ( 1) 0.24ug/m9( 1) 0.00mg/m3(2) 0.57ug/m3 (1) V. MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE SUMMARY Total number of Examinations - 32 Number of Examinations which showed: a. Hearing loss - 0 Please call me at 9408 if you have any questions on this information. A* SJ/sm/9324 Scott Johnson R.D. Moore R.D. Webber S.J. Mathers K.W. Prather M.E. Guyer T. Grabenstetter D.L. Piccinelli J. Greasier - Cleveland E. ler - Cleveland S&E^Operator (1) PVC Foreman (4) File NOC 15539