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
References

Content: Impact Dangers and Blindness
Auto body and paint workers use high-speed rotational tools for sanding, grinding and refinishing. Drills, orbital sanders, buffers, sand and bead-blasters, and air compressor nozzles can eject or throw metal or soft objects into the eyes of the worker. Orbital sanders and wire wheels can throw high-speed objects into the face or the body, causing eye injury or blindness. Approved safety goggles negate this hazard. Welding Fumes
Stainless steel welding gives off toxic fumes, resulting from residual cleaning chemicals and surface paint chemicals, including primers, and oxidized-heated metals. Such dispersed chemicals include chromium, nickel, manganese, iron and arsenic. The heavy metals in particular cause nerve and body organ damage over long exposure periods and, in some cases, immediate harm if the exposure is heavy and concentrated. Direct Chemical Contact
Most of the chemicals associated with the auto body paint trade produce harmful and destructive results in direct contact with the skin. Cleaning solvents, when in contact with hands and arms, become absorbed into the skin and the bloodstream. These caustic chemicals produce the same ailments, reactions and diseases experience by inhalation, only on a slower scale.