Respiratory illness caused by overheating of polyvinyl chloride.
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Respiratory illness caused by overheating of polyvinyl chloride.
On 9 August 1979, 62 (30.8%) of 201 workers and one of 60 management personnel in a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) fabricating plant developed acute upper and lower respiratory irritation, headache, nausea, and fainting. All were taken to hospital; none died. Sixty of the patients were women. Interviews two weeks later with 57 affected and 14 unaffected workers disclosed that illness had followed exp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1982
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.39.3.239