Hazard of lead exposure in the home from recycled automobile storage batteries.

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• Personal Author:
  Coleman GD ; Dolcourt JL ; Finch C ; Klimas AJ ; Milar CR
• Description:
  Case reports of excessive lead (7439921) exposure in the home from recycled automobile storage batteries were presented. In the first case report, a previously normal 3 year old girl in rural eastern North Carolina with a 1 month history of weight loss, lethargy, and vomiting, was found to be suffering from lead encephalopathy. The 68 year old great grandfather of the girl was employed in a small scale operation that recycled automobile storage batteries. The family had burned two truckloads of discarded battery casings in the a wood stove over a 3 month period; 22 family members lived in the house. Dust samples obtained from the house showed 13,283 parts per million (ppm) of lead on a sofa and 41,283ppm of lead on the kitchen floor. The second case report involved elevated blood lead level in a truck driver working at a battery recycling operation in rural western North Carolina who operated an illicit battery recycling operation inside his home. Lead was melted down on the kitchen stove, lead waste products were discarded in the yard, and discarded battery casings were used to pave the driveway. Soil samples contained 12 to 49.2 percent lead. No symptoms of lead poisoning were observed in any of the family members. An appendix on sources of lead for lead workers' children was presented. A directory of lead smelters in the United States was also presented. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Hazardous Substances Hematologic Tests Lead Lead Poisoning Nervous System Nervous System Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety

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• Keywords:
  Acute-toxicity Author Keywords: Lead Poisoning Blood-analysis Brain-damage Children Chronic-intoxication Environmental-contamination Environmental-exposure Environmental Toxins Lead-compounds Lead-poisoning Lead Encephalopathy NIOSH-Author Occupational-exposure Storage Batteries

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• ISSN:
  0031-4005
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  225-230
• Volume:
  68
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00175962
• Citation:
  Pediatrics 1981 Aug; 68(2):225-230
• Contact Point Address:
  Jack L. Dolcourt, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, 50 North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Pediatrics
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:588fc69ce63b46649e3135e1aa39e05f506044851a0cd4349847ae8859e71aa5822b8c06200247fea6036285debc0b7e27f680b5e29bfaf9a4d73ed45c366875
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/185412/cdc_185412_DS1.pdf
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