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Lead battery manufacturing dust

Lead dust generated during manufacture of lead-containing batteries.

Airborne form

dust

The form describes what is suspended in air at the point of exposure. A material can produce more than one form, such as dust during handling and fume during heating.

Health effects

lead overexposurerespiratory exposure concernoccupational lead toxicity

Evidence

A NIOSH evaluation of a battery manufacturing plant found that numerous personal and general-area air samples exceeded the established lead-dust standard and recommended measures to reduce the hazard to affected employees.

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Lead dust air concentrations measured at a battery manufacturing plant indicate that numerous personal and general area samples throughout the plant exceed the established lead dust standard. ... Recommendations are made to obviate the hazards to the 125 affected employees.

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