Automobile mechanics

A proportionate mortality analysis (PMR) revealed an increase of leukemia deaths in gasoline station attendants and mechanics. In addition, there were four deaths due to brain cancer (Schwartz 1987). No information is provided on length or employment or exposure. The PMR does not reflect the mortality of the population because it is so easily influenced by over- and under-representation of deaths. The automobile mechanics and gasoline station attendants who died of leukemia each had different job titles. Therefore, they may not have had similar exposures. Also, several types of leukemia were found acute myelogenous leukemia (N=2), chronic myelogenous leukemia (N=2), erythroleukemia (N=1), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (N=2), acute leukemia unspecified (N=1), and chronic leukemia undifferentiated (N=1). It is very difficult to draw any definitive conclusions from this type of analysis because several different types of leukemia were reported, and quantification of exposure is not possible in a retrospective study of this type. 

DHHS. 1986. A proportionate mortality ratio analysis of gasoline station attendants and automobile mechanics in New Hampshire. Washington, DC Department of Health and Human Services. Document no. FYI-OTS-1286-0522. 

Schwartz E. 1987. Proportionate mortality ratio analysis of automobile mechanics and gasoline service station workers in New Hampshire. Am J Ind Med 12 91-99. 

A case study in Sweden of 859 NHL cases has shown an association between increased NHL risk and industrial exposure to aliphatic hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, mixed organic solvents, and gasoline as well as working as an automobile mechanic or painter. 92 ... 

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Sierra P, Loranger S, Kennedy G, et al. 1995. Occupational and environmental exposure of automobile mechanics and nonautomotive workers to airborne manganese arising from the combustion of methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MMT). Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 56 713-716. 

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EXPOSURE ROUTES drinking water cigarette smoke fossil fuel burning coke oven workers, steel workers, roofers, and automobile mechanics tobacco smokers ambient air ingesting contaminated food... 

About 150,000 workers are exposed to zinc at their jobs. Jobs where people are exposed to zinc include zinc mining, smelting, and welding manufacture of brass, bronze, or other zinc-containing alloys manufacture of galvanized metals and manufacture of machine parts, rubber, paint, linoleum, oilcloths, batteries, some kinds of glass and ceramics, and dyes. People at construction jobs, automobile mechanics, and painters are also exposed to zinc. 

Service-oriented. Some students choose bioengineering over other engineering disciplines because they want to help people. Of course, they could have chosen any field of engineering because humanity benefits greatly by advances in all the engineering disciplines. For example, our health has been dramatically improved by the invention of power transmission lines (electrical), water treatment plants (environmental), and automobiles (mechanical). Likewise, many students want to be doctors so that they can help people. The field of medicine offers unlimited opportunities to improve the health and well-being of people of all ages, from all walks of life. 

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Contact urticaria to latex (a plant product), usually seen in the health professions, can occur wherever rubber gloves are worn. It was reported in an automobile mechanic [198]. 

Automobile mechanics perform all types of jobs in car repair, preparation and service. The risk of occupational dermatoses varies to a large extent with the specific type of work, the associated dermal exposure (and its duration) and protective measures. Generally, all risks that appear in the car industry may be relevant for automobile mechanics, but whether there is a dermatological risk depends on the size of the workshop, the specific business, the organization of the work, and the occupational health and safety standards assumed in that work place. A wide range of tasks have to be taken into account. 

Currently, the work of automobile mechanics is increasingly characterized by the checking of electric, electronic, hydraulic and mechanic systems and their interfaces. Therefore, the risk of irritant or allergic dermatitis is decreasing. However, if jobs with contact to irritants or allergens are limited to only one or a few workers, if protective equipment is not available or not used and if occupational health care is not performed properly, different occupational skin diseases are possible. 

The automobile mechanic course of six weeks was normally accompanied by the chauffeur course of two weeks. 

Automobile mechanics and other transportation-related workers can be at risk from inhalation hazards, such as metal fume fever, from inhalation exposures to manganese, which is released in automobile exhaust from combustion of manganese antiknock additives in nonleaded gasoline. According to the EPA (185), 30% of the manganese in gasoline is released from the automobile exhaust pipe. The size of manganese particles emitted to the atmosphere varies from 0.25 to... 

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