APPENDIX C
COMMON INDUSTRIAL HAZARDS FOUND IN THE ARMY
Gases
TLV (ppm)
STEL
Typical Operations
Carbon monoxide
50
400
Engine operations
Welding and cutting
3
5
Metalizing Carbon arc
reproduction
Aldehydes
(1, A2)*
(2, A2)
Diesel engines Map
(Formaldehyde)
sorting and storage
Sulfur dioxide
2
5
plants
100
150
Painting
Thinner vapors
100
150
Toluene
Xylene
Ozone
C 0.1
C 0.2
Inert gas welding Carbon
arc reproduction
Metalizing
Ammonia
25
35
Ozalid reproduction
Chlorine
0.5
11
Chlorinating water and
sewage
Methyl bromide
5 (skin)
--
Fumigation work
Methyl ethyl ketone
200
300
Spraying strippable
(MEK)
coating, paint
removing
0.05 mg/M3
Mercury
--
Filling mercury gauges
(skin)
and instruments
instruments
Trichloroethylene
50
200
Vapor degreasing
Cleaning metal parts by
hand with cold solution
* A2 indicates suspected carcinogen.
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