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From: "Diane Amell" 
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 10:25:59 -0500
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Latex Glove degeneration

Since I don't often train PhDs and MDs (and am not one myself), here are
the references I use:

May 12, 1997 issue [Vol 75(19)] of Chemical & Engineering News, Letters
column, "Chemical safety: Handling dimethylmercury", Michael B. Blayney,
John S. Winn, & David W. Nierenberg

June 16, 1997 issue [Vol 75(24)] of Chemical & Engineering News,
Letters column, "Chemical safety: More on working with dimethylmercury",
Taft Y. Toribara, Thomas W. Clarkson & David W. Nierenberg

November/December 1997 issue [Vol 4(6)] of Journal of Chemical Health &
Safety, "A latex glove alert", Miriam C. Nagel

November/December 1997 issue [Vol 4(6)] of Journal of Chemical Health &
Safety, News column, "Dartmouth reaches settlement with OSHA"
(Ironically, this item, which states that Dartmouth planned to hire a
chemical hygiene officer, is immediately followed by a position
announcement for the job.)

US DOL OSHA Hazard Information Bulletin for Dimethylmercury,
http://www.osha.gov/dts/hib/hib_data/hib19980309.html

To see information on the actual OSHA inspection, go to the federal
OSHA homepage at www.osha.gov, scroll down to "Statistics/Inspection
Data". Then select "Establishment Search" and fill in the blanks. (The
date the inspection was opened was 04/10/1997, so you will have to
change the defaults.)

I am surprised that we have not yet heard from any of our esteemed
colleagues from Dartmouth. They have been quite open and willing to get
the word out about this tragedy and the lessons learned.

- Diane Amell, MNOSHA