Title: Health Risks Associated With Auto Body Painting Materials | It Still Runs
Headings: Health Risks Associated With Auto Body Painting Materials
Health Risks Associated With Auto Body Painting Materials
Flammable Substances and Burns
Airborne Sanding Particles
Airborne Paint Fumes and Chemicals
Impact Dangers and Blindness
Welding Fumes
Direct Chemical Contact
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Content: Sanding discs produce microscopic abrasives of silica, rust, and methylene chloride, along with chromium and lead that comes from sanding coat-painted surfaces. These fine dust particles become airborne and, without proper ventilation, linger to be inhaled by shop personnel. Inhaling such particles for even short terms can cause asthma, emphysema and other lung-related diseases and irritation. Shop personnel should always wear respirators and eye protection when sanding and grinding bare metal or painted surfaces. Airborne Paint Fumes and Chemicals
Auto body painters are at risk of inhaling isocyanates, which include two-part coatings, paints and paint pigments that use a hardener in combination with a catalyst. Sprayed airborne paint chemicals include chromium, cadmium and lead. Primer and sealer paints contain aliphatic isocyanates and ethyl acetate. Clear coat paints contain toluene, petroleum naphtha and mixed dibasic esters. Metal cleaning and body trim work contains epoxy resins, methylene chloride, styrene and adhesive fumes. All of these airborne chemicals can cause respiratory inflammation or disease, as well as skin rashes and inflammations, allergic reactions, nerve and brain damage, nausea, organ failure, headache and vomiting.