[Spridgets] Welding safety - Brake Cleaner can kill you

[Pete Chast]

Hi all,

After this discussion started I went looking for the documentation.
This was always a hazzard for those of us that worked on refrigeration
systems.

Check out: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/cis_wsh_cet5025_90105_7.doc

Pete


On Sun, 09 May 2010 13:02:42 -0400, Michael Rowe <mdrowe at optonline.net>  
wrote:

>
> "Phosgene is formed by decomposition of chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents  
> by ultraviolet radiation. It reacts with moisture in the lungs to  
> produce hydrogen chloride, which in turn destroys lung tissue. For this  
> reason, any use of chlorinated solvents should be well away from welding  
> operations or any operation in which ultraviolet radiation or intense  
> heat is generated."  
> (http://www.osha.gov/doc/outreachtraining/htmlfiles/weldhlth.html)
>
> Note that hydrogen chloride --> hydrochloric acid is in our stomachs in  
> fairly high concentrations  (0.5%  --> heart burn, acid reflux), and we  
> often breath it when we burp up stomach juices.  You will not fall over  
> dead from breathing small amounts of HCl.  It is just an irritant in  
> small concentrations.
>
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