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- Title
O-Chlorobenzylidene Malononitrile (CS Riot Control Agent) Exposure in a U.S. Army Basic Combat Training Cohort.
- Authors
Hout, Joseph J.; White, Duvel W.; Stubner, Alex; Stevens, Michael; Knapik, Joseph J.
- Abstract
All U.S. Army soldiers participate in mask confidence training during initial military training and periodically throughout their careers. Training is conducted by dispersing the riot control agent, o-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile (CS), in a relatively air-tight structure where soldiers enter and conduct a series of exercises that culminate with mask removal. The study described here quantified CS concentrations experienced by 6,723 trainees and seven chamber operators during U.S. Army basic combat training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, from August 1 to September 25, 2012. All 6,723 trainees were potentially exposed to CS concentrations exceeding the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists threshold limit value-ceiling (TLV-C) (0.39 mg/m3), 6,589 of which were potentially exposed to concentrations exceeding the value deemed immediately dangerous to life and health (IDLH) (2.0 mg/ m3) by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. All chamber operators were exposed to concentrations exceeding both the TLV-C and the IDLH.
- Subjects
SOUTH Carolina; ANALYSIS of variance; CONFIDENCE intervals; SCIENTIFIC observation; PROBABILITY theory; STATISTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL exposure; RIOT control agents; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test
- Publication
Journal of Environmental Health, 2014, Vol 77, Issue 3, p14
- ISSN
0022-0892
- Publication type
Article