A FATAL CASE OF NITROGLYCOL POISONING IN A DYNAMITE FACTORY

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  • ダイナマイト工場におけるニトログリコール中毒による1死亡例
  • ダイナマイト コウジョウ ニ オケル ニトログリコール チュウドク ニ ヨル 1 シボウレイ

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This paper is an account of a fatal case of nitroglycol poisoning in a dynamite factory. A quite healthy 46-year old dynamite worker who engaged in press-extending work about twenty years, died suddenly early on a Monday morning before work. Perhaps the concentration of nitroglycol in the air of the working room had been notably high in former days, but it has been almost less than MAC in Japan (0.20 ppm) in these two years. Autopsy abstract: Hypertrophy in the left ventricle, slight atrophic myocardium and fatty heart; congestion of the lung, liver and kidney; slight fatty degeneration in the liver and hyaline droplet degeneration in renal tubules; splenomegalia and infiltration of eosinocytes; atrophy and thinning in the adrenal cortex; edema in the brain etc. But coronary arteries and the aorta showed no remarkable sclerosis and thrombosis. Based on the findings mentioned above, the author supposed that, for early detection of chronic nitroglycol poisoning, tests of EEG and the adrenal cortex are to be tried as well as tests of cardiovascular and autonomic nervous systems.

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  • Sangyo Igaku

    Sangyo Igaku 7 (8), 454-459, 1965

    Japan Society for Occupational Health

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