-
Vinyl Chloride Production 1954 BF Goodrich Company
Vinyl is a synthetic plastic material that has the most uses compared to any other plastic in the world. In 1926, the BF Goodrich Company accidental discovered vinyl chloride (VC), then found many uses and soon products made from VC started entering the market in a big way. The 1930s saw the entry of many vinyl coated umbrellas, raincoats, etc into the markets. After this, vinyl was used in the manufacture of sealants for auto shock absorbers, thus finding usefulness in the auto industry as well. In the 1940s, there was an acute scarcity of natural rubber because of the war, thus vinyl was used as a coating for wires and proved to be an excellent substance for insulation of wires. However, industry studies in the 1950s revealed harmful health effects of vinyl chloride exposure, but this k...
published: 11 Sep 2012
-
Vinyl Chloride Contamination: What You Need To Know /The Collins Law Firm/Environmental Lawyer
www.collinslaw.com
Let's talk about vinyl chloride.
How do people get exposed to vinyl chloride?
First of all, you need to know that vinyl chloride often started out as a different chemical, sometimes TCE or PCE, and then in the environment, those chemicals went through a process called degradation, and over time became vinyl chloride. This typically happened near factories or at landfills where TCE or PCE was dumped and allowed to bleed into the soil and degrade into vinyl chloride. The vinyl chloride migrates down into the groundwater and that's where it becomes a problem for human beings. If that groundwater is the source of a family's water supply, for example if the family has a private well, then vinyl chloride is in the water coming out of their kitchen tap and their shower head. If...
published: 24 Mar 2017
-
CSB Safety Video: Vinyl Chloride Explosion and Fire
Explosion and Fire at Formosa Plastics Corporation, USA, Illiopolis, Illinois
published: 07 Mar 2007
-
Vinyl Chloride and Occupational Cancer
After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC) became a key chemical used to make plastic products. It was manufactured exclusively for polymeri After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC) became a key chemical used to make plastic products. It was manufactured exclusively for polymerization into polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic used in construction, packaging, electrical, and transportation industries; in household products such as flooring, water piping, videodiscs, and credit cards; and in medical products such as disposable intravenous bags, tubing, and bedpans. In 1974-1975, the disclosure that vinyl chloride exposure had caused rare liver cancers in worker led the recently created U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue an emergency standard to ptotect workers. VC and PVC producti...
published: 12 Feb 2008
-
The PVC production process explained
published: 15 Oct 2017
2:11
Vinyl Chloride Production 1954 BF Goodrich Company
Vinyl is a synthetic plastic material that has the most uses compared to any other plastic in the world. In 1926, the BF Goodrich Company accidental discovered ...
Vinyl is a synthetic plastic material that has the most uses compared to any other plastic in the world. In 1926, the BF Goodrich Company accidental discovered vinyl chloride (VC), then found many uses and soon products made from VC started entering the market in a big way. The 1930s saw the entry of many vinyl coated umbrellas, raincoats, etc into the markets. After this, vinyl was used in the manufacture of sealants for auto shock absorbers, thus finding usefulness in the auto industry as well. In the 1940s, there was an acute scarcity of natural rubber because of the war, thus vinyl was used as a coating for wires and proved to be an excellent substance for insulation of wires. However, industry studies in the 1950s revealed harmful health effects of vinyl chloride exposure, but this knowledge was suppressed and misrepresented for several decades. Industry experiments in laboratory animals, as early as the 1950's, found evidence of harm but officials did not initially disclose the findings. PVC manufacturers also delayed release of study results showing that rodents exposed at levels much lower than the allowable workplace exposure limits developed liver sarcoma. Then in February 1974, the CDC reported the death of four tire plant workers who were employed at the same B.F. Goodrich factory in Kentucky. The cluster of deaths was unusual—each of the four men succumbed to an extremely rare form of liver cancer known as hepatic angiosarcoma. The company's medical staff identified vinyl chloride, a chemical used in the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), as the cause of the cancer. Public concern grew once the report surfaced. Thousands of workers were being exposed to high levels of a substance whose toxicity had come to light. Once news of vinyl chloride's risks surfaced, OSHA—not even four years old at the time— sprang into action. Less than three months after the publication of the CDC article, the agency issued an emergency temporary standard lowering the permissible exposure level for vinyl chloride from 500 parts per million (ppm) to 50 ppm.20 The following month, OSHA proposed a permanent rule that would reduce the exposure level to 0 ppm. Industry groups protested, claiming such a standard would put plastics manufacturers out of business. As a slight compromise, OSHA's final standard allowed manufacturers to maintain no more than a 1 ppm air concentration of vinyl chloride. The entire rulemaking process took nine months. Manufacturers were easily able to comply with the rule after B.F. Goodrich developed a system to sequester the chemical and prevent worker exposure.
Vinyl chloride is a powerful example of the success of OSHA health regulation. When OSHA proposed a regulation to reduce worker exposure to vinyl chloride, manufacturers roundly denounced the rule, predicting that it would wreck the industry. Yet, months after the 1975 vinyl chloride regulation went into effect, the magazine Chemical Week described an industry rushing to "improve existing operations and build new units" to meet increased market demand. The Sept. 15, 1976, issue reported that producers "have installed the equipment needed to meet the worker-exposure requirements set by [OSHA], but without inflating production costs to the point where PVCs growth might be stunted. In the early 1980s, the Congressional Office of Technologic Assessment (OTA) confirmed that the vinyl industry actually spent only a quarter of OSHA's original estimate to comply with the standard. The new technology designed to meet the standard actually increased productivity. OTA also examined eight OSHA standards and found in almost every case, the cost was a fraction of OSHA's estimate, and did not have an adverse effect on the industry. For more on the history of vinyl chloride, read the 2002 book Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. Their book details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. This is clipped from the 1954 film, Man-Made Miracles, a film about the development of synthetic rubber and vinyl chloride by the BF Goodrich Company.
https://wn.com/Vinyl_Chloride_Production_1954_Bf_Goodrich_Company
Vinyl is a synthetic plastic material that has the most uses compared to any other plastic in the world. In 1926, the BF Goodrich Company accidental discovered vinyl chloride (VC), then found many uses and soon products made from VC started entering the market in a big way. The 1930s saw the entry of many vinyl coated umbrellas, raincoats, etc into the markets. After this, vinyl was used in the manufacture of sealants for auto shock absorbers, thus finding usefulness in the auto industry as well. In the 1940s, there was an acute scarcity of natural rubber because of the war, thus vinyl was used as a coating for wires and proved to be an excellent substance for insulation of wires. However, industry studies in the 1950s revealed harmful health effects of vinyl chloride exposure, but this knowledge was suppressed and misrepresented for several decades. Industry experiments in laboratory animals, as early as the 1950's, found evidence of harm but officials did not initially disclose the findings. PVC manufacturers also delayed release of study results showing that rodents exposed at levels much lower than the allowable workplace exposure limits developed liver sarcoma. Then in February 1974, the CDC reported the death of four tire plant workers who were employed at the same B.F. Goodrich factory in Kentucky. The cluster of deaths was unusual—each of the four men succumbed to an extremely rare form of liver cancer known as hepatic angiosarcoma. The company's medical staff identified vinyl chloride, a chemical used in the production of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), as the cause of the cancer. Public concern grew once the report surfaced. Thousands of workers were being exposed to high levels of a substance whose toxicity had come to light. Once news of vinyl chloride's risks surfaced, OSHA—not even four years old at the time— sprang into action. Less than three months after the publication of the CDC article, the agency issued an emergency temporary standard lowering the permissible exposure level for vinyl chloride from 500 parts per million (ppm) to 50 ppm.20 The following month, OSHA proposed a permanent rule that would reduce the exposure level to 0 ppm. Industry groups protested, claiming such a standard would put plastics manufacturers out of business. As a slight compromise, OSHA's final standard allowed manufacturers to maintain no more than a 1 ppm air concentration of vinyl chloride. The entire rulemaking process took nine months. Manufacturers were easily able to comply with the rule after B.F. Goodrich developed a system to sequester the chemical and prevent worker exposure.
Vinyl chloride is a powerful example of the success of OSHA health regulation. When OSHA proposed a regulation to reduce worker exposure to vinyl chloride, manufacturers roundly denounced the rule, predicting that it would wreck the industry. Yet, months after the 1975 vinyl chloride regulation went into effect, the magazine Chemical Week described an industry rushing to "improve existing operations and build new units" to meet increased market demand. The Sept. 15, 1976, issue reported that producers "have installed the equipment needed to meet the worker-exposure requirements set by [OSHA], but without inflating production costs to the point where PVCs growth might be stunted. In the early 1980s, the Congressional Office of Technologic Assessment (OTA) confirmed that the vinyl industry actually spent only a quarter of OSHA's original estimate to comply with the standard. The new technology designed to meet the standard actually increased productivity. OTA also examined eight OSHA standards and found in almost every case, the cost was a fraction of OSHA's estimate, and did not have an adverse effect on the industry. For more on the history of vinyl chloride, read the 2002 book Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. Their book details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. This is clipped from the 1954 film, Man-Made Miracles, a film about the development of synthetic rubber and vinyl chloride by the BF Goodrich Company.
- published: 11 Sep 2012
- views: 25308
4:17
Vinyl Chloride Contamination: What You Need To Know /The Collins Law Firm/Environmental Lawyer
www.collinslaw.com
Let's talk about vinyl chloride.
How do people get exposed to vinyl chloride?
First of all, you need to know that vinyl chloride often starte...
www.collinslaw.com
Let's talk about vinyl chloride.
How do people get exposed to vinyl chloride?
First of all, you need to know that vinyl chloride often started out as a different chemical, sometimes TCE or PCE, and then in the environment, those chemicals went through a process called degradation, and over time became vinyl chloride. This typically happened near factories or at landfills where TCE or PCE was dumped and allowed to bleed into the soil and degrade into vinyl chloride. The vinyl chloride migrates down into the groundwater and that's where it becomes a problem for human beings. If that groundwater is the source of a family's water supply, for example if the family has a private well, then vinyl chloride is in the water coming out of their kitchen tap and their shower head. If the water has vinyl chloride in it, then the family is being exposed to this dangerous chemical. There is another way that vinyl chloride in groundwater can be a problem. Vinyl chloride is a volatile organic compound, which means that it turns into a vapor, and when it does, the vapor seeps back up through the soil, through tiny foundation cracks and into the air inside homes. It's colorless and odorless so people will not even know they are breathing vinyl chloride.
What are the health effects of vinyl chloride?
Most importantly, you need to know that there is no safe level of vinyl chloride. Every serious scientific organization that I know of that has studied its health effects, has concluded that vinyl chloride is a known carcinogen in human beings. Medical studies show that it causes cancer, principally liver cancer, brain cancer, lung cancer and blood cancers like lymphoma and leukemia. It also disrupts our immune system, especially in children, which makes it very dangerous. The bottom line is: If you suspect or know that there is vinyl chloride in your home or air or water, you need to do everything you can to eliminate this threat to your family.
For more information, please read the Collins Law firm blog on vinyl chloride at http://www.collinslaw.com/blog/2017/03/what-you-need-to-know-about-vinyl-chloride-vc.shtml or call attorney shawn Collins at (630) 527-1595.
www.bensound.com
https://wn.com/Vinyl_Chloride_Contamination_What_You_Need_To_Know_The_Collins_Law_Firm_Environmental_Lawyer
www.collinslaw.com
Let's talk about vinyl chloride.
How do people get exposed to vinyl chloride?
First of all, you need to know that vinyl chloride often started out as a different chemical, sometimes TCE or PCE, and then in the environment, those chemicals went through a process called degradation, and over time became vinyl chloride. This typically happened near factories or at landfills where TCE or PCE was dumped and allowed to bleed into the soil and degrade into vinyl chloride. The vinyl chloride migrates down into the groundwater and that's where it becomes a problem for human beings. If that groundwater is the source of a family's water supply, for example if the family has a private well, then vinyl chloride is in the water coming out of their kitchen tap and their shower head. If the water has vinyl chloride in it, then the family is being exposed to this dangerous chemical. There is another way that vinyl chloride in groundwater can be a problem. Vinyl chloride is a volatile organic compound, which means that it turns into a vapor, and when it does, the vapor seeps back up through the soil, through tiny foundation cracks and into the air inside homes. It's colorless and odorless so people will not even know they are breathing vinyl chloride.
What are the health effects of vinyl chloride?
Most importantly, you need to know that there is no safe level of vinyl chloride. Every serious scientific organization that I know of that has studied its health effects, has concluded that vinyl chloride is a known carcinogen in human beings. Medical studies show that it causes cancer, principally liver cancer, brain cancer, lung cancer and blood cancers like lymphoma and leukemia. It also disrupts our immune system, especially in children, which makes it very dangerous. The bottom line is: If you suspect or know that there is vinyl chloride in your home or air or water, you need to do everything you can to eliminate this threat to your family.
For more information, please read the Collins Law firm blog on vinyl chloride at http://www.collinslaw.com/blog/2017/03/what-you-need-to-know-about-vinyl-chloride-vc.shtml or call attorney shawn Collins at (630) 527-1595.
www.bensound.com
- published: 24 Mar 2017
- views: 9110
10:43
CSB Safety Video: Vinyl Chloride Explosion and Fire
Explosion and Fire at Formosa Plastics Corporation, USA, Illiopolis, Illinois
Explosion and Fire at Formosa Plastics Corporation, USA, Illiopolis, Illinois
https://wn.com/Csb_Safety_Video_Vinyl_Chloride_Explosion_And_Fire
Explosion and Fire at Formosa Plastics Corporation, USA, Illiopolis, Illinois
- published: 07 Mar 2007
- views: 343922
1:45
Vinyl Chloride and Occupational Cancer
After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC) became a key chemical used to make plastic products. It was manufactured exclusively for polymeri After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC...
After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC) became a key chemical used to make plastic products. It was manufactured exclusively for polymeri After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC) became a key chemical used to make plastic products. It was manufactured exclusively for polymerization into polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic used in construction, packaging, electrical, and transportation industries; in household products such as flooring, water piping, videodiscs, and credit cards; and in medical products such as disposable intravenous bags, tubing, and bedpans. In 1974-1975, the disclosure that vinyl chloride exposure had caused rare liver cancers in worker led the recently created U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue an emergency standard to ptotect workers. VC and PVC production plants had to reduce workplace exposure levels from 500 ppm to 1 ppm, to provide protect workers' health. When OSHA issued the new exposure limit of 1 ppm, industry spokespeople issued dire predictions of job loss and plant closures. However, in less than two years virtually all U.S. manufacturing plants were able to meet the new standard while still maintaining rapid growth of sales volume. This was accomplished largely through better containment of unpolymerized VC monomer and improved exposure monitoring. For more information, go to the 2005 article in the Journal Environmental Health Perspectives at http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/7716/7716.html and read the book, Deceit and Denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollution by Markowitz and Rosner, from the University of California Press, http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9844/9844.intro.html . This clip is from the 1978 movie, More Than a Paycheck, and the voice is the late Dr. Irving Selikoff.
https://wn.com/Vinyl_Chloride_And_Occupational_Cancer
After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC) became a key chemical used to make plastic products. It was manufactured exclusively for polymeri After WWII, vinyl chloride (VC) became a key chemical used to make plastic products. It was manufactured exclusively for polymerization into polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic used in construction, packaging, electrical, and transportation industries; in household products such as flooring, water piping, videodiscs, and credit cards; and in medical products such as disposable intravenous bags, tubing, and bedpans. In 1974-1975, the disclosure that vinyl chloride exposure had caused rare liver cancers in worker led the recently created U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue an emergency standard to ptotect workers. VC and PVC production plants had to reduce workplace exposure levels from 500 ppm to 1 ppm, to provide protect workers' health. When OSHA issued the new exposure limit of 1 ppm, industry spokespeople issued dire predictions of job loss and plant closures. However, in less than two years virtually all U.S. manufacturing plants were able to meet the new standard while still maintaining rapid growth of sales volume. This was accomplished largely through better containment of unpolymerized VC monomer and improved exposure monitoring. For more information, go to the 2005 article in the Journal Environmental Health Perspectives at http://www.ehponline.org/members/2005/7716/7716.html and read the book, Deceit and Denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollution by Markowitz and Rosner, from the University of California Press, http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9844/9844.intro.html . This clip is from the 1978 movie, More Than a Paycheck, and the voice is the late Dr. Irving Selikoff.
- published: 12 Feb 2008
- views: 8844
Springfield News-Sun
25 Oct 2024
Springfield News-Sun
25 Oct 2024