Industrial Disasters
The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, falling, or jumping to their deaths.
What is Triangle Shirt Waist Factory?
A convenient way to compare sound pressure levels with different orders of magnitude.
What is a decibel?
An arbovirus transmitted by ticks containing the bacteria Borrelia Burgdorferi.
What is Lyme disease?
The net heat load to which a worker may be exposed from the combined effects of metabolic heat, environmental factors, and clothing requirements.
What is Heat Stress?
The amount of time between first exposure and onset of disease.
What is latency period?
A landfill to dispose over 21,000 tons of toxic waste by the Hooker Electrochemical Company. The drums leaked, and contaminated soil and groundwater.
What is the Love Canal?
It measures sound pressures at ear level and converts to sound intensity on either A scale or C scale.
What is a sound level meter?
Found in foods contaminated with fecal matter, dubbed the "flesh eating" bacteria.
What is Escherichia coli (E. coli)?
Minimize skin exposure with layered clothing, keep clothes dry, reduce work outdoors in colder times of the day, work within a wind barrier or have auxiliary heat, drink warm fluids when on breaks/lunch in a sheltered area.
What is cold stress prevention?
Common lung disease caused by prolonged inhalation of various types of dust, such as cotton, coal and metal.
What is pneumoconiosis?
As a result of the exposure to silica dust from the construction of the 3-mile tunnel in West Virginia, many workers developed silicosis, a debilitating and incurable lung disease.
What is Hawk's Nest Tunnel?
Annual requirement for those in the Hearing Conservation Program who work in high noise areas of the facility.
What is Audiometric Testing?
A highly virulent bacterial infection contracted from animals or animal products?
What is Anthrax?
A physiological adaptation that improves an individual's ability to tolerate heat stress.
What is acclimatization?
Substances that cause birth defects in a developing embryo or fetus.
What are teratogens?
December 3, 1984, some 45 tons of gaseous methyl isocyanate escaped from a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide in India.
What is Bhopal?
A ratio of time exposed to maximum time allowed for a sound pressure level.
An airborne aerosol that originates from warm, stagnant water, e.g. cooling towers, evaporative condensers, whirl pools, spas, etc.
What is Legionnaires disease?
General lowering of core body temperature below 95F and can include shivering, numbness, disorientation, sleepiness, confusion and loss of dexterity.
What is hypothermia?
Airborne agents that displace or dilute oxygen concentration below safe levels in a given space.
What are simple asphyxiants?
This disease was caused by the consumption of fish and shellfish contaminated by methylmercury compound discharged from a Japanese chemical plant.
What is Minimata?
An attenuation index that represents the overall average noise reduction in decibels that manufacturers list on their ear protection.
What is Noise Reduction Rating (NRR)?
A fatal degenerative brain disease from infected prions.
What is Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease?
The estimated temperature - from a calculation of three temperatures: wet bulb, globe, and dry - of environmental contributions to heat stress.
What is Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT)?
What is synergistic effect?