Smelt or cast lead

Comments

Lead poisoning; Cadmium poisoning; Arsenic poisoning (lead smelting); Sources of lead exposure include: lead production; scrap metal recycling, refining lead, melting lead, pouring lead, and fire assays of ore samples containing lead (gold ores).

Job Task Category

Smelting or Casting Metal

Exposed To

Metals

Diseases

Diseases associated with this job task:

• Acute tubular necrosis
• Arsenic, chronic toxic effect
• Birth defects
• Cadmium, chronic toxic effect
• Chronic renal failure
• Infertility, male
• Lead, subacute toxic effect
• Neuropathy, toxic
• Spontaneous abortions

Jobs

Jobs associated with this job task:

• Materials Engineers
• Materials Scientists
• Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
• Pourers and Casters, Metal

Industries

Industries associated with this job task:

• Copper Foundries (except Die-Casting)
• Electrometallurgical Ferroalloy Product Manufacturing
• Gold Ore Mining
• Iron and Steel Mills
• Iron Foundries
• Lead Ore and Zinc Ore Mining
• METAL ORE MINING
• Nonferrous (except Aluminum) Die-Casting Foundries
• Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding
• Other Communication and Energy Wire Manufacturing
• Other Nonferrous Foundries (except Die-Casting)
• Primary Smelting and Refining of Copper
• Primary Smelting and Refining of Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum)
• Secondary Smelting, Refining, and Alloying of Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum)
• Steel Foundries (except Investment)
• Steel Investment Foundries