From the U.S. Dept of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Guideline for Chloroform
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/chloroform/recognition.html
The following operations may involve chloroform and lead to worker exposures to this substance:
The manufacture and transportation of chloroform (BBM and RBBM)
Used in manufacture of fluorocarbons (especially chlorodifluoromethane)
for refrigerants and aerosol propellants; used in fire extinguishers to lower the freezing temperature of carbon tetrachloride; used in manufacture of fluorocarbon resins, tribromomethane, plastics, and thermally stable polymers;
used in the manufacture of artificial silk, floor polishes, dyes, and pesticides Used as an extractant solvent in
manufacture of rubber, essential oils, sterols and alkaloids, guttapercha, resins, and in the recovery of fat from waste products
Used in chemical analysis and assays; and in
photographic processing
Used as a
general solvent of lacquers plastics, dyes, fats, greases, gums, oils, adhesives, and waxes, and in the rubber cleaning and dry cleaning industries
Prior use as an anesthetic has been discontinued and uses in human drugs and cosmetics are now limited to use as a process solvent for final products that contain only residual amounts of chloroform
Used as a fumigant for soil, a
mildewicide for tobacco seedlings, a grain fumigant for various stored dry grains, and as an insecticide
