Remove lead coatings

Comments

Lead poisoning: welding, cutting, brazing, grinding, sanding, or blasting of old paint (houses and buildings painted before 1978, bridges, water tanks, petroleum tanks, underground tanks, steel towers, and ships);

Job Task Category

Removing Coatings

Reference Link

Exposed To

Metals

Diseases

Diseases associated with this job task:

• Birth defects
• Chronic renal failure
• Infertility, male
• Lead, subacute toxic effect
• Neuropathy, toxic
• Spontaneous abortions

Jobs

Jobs associated with this job task:

• Construction Craft Laborers
• Construction Trades Workers, All Other
• Craft Artists
• Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors & Illustrators
• Grinding & Polishing Workers, Hand
• Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
• Maintenance & Repair Workers, General
• Museum Technicians and Conservators
• Painters, Construction & Maintenance
• Painters, Transportation Equipment
• Painting, Coating & Decorating Workers
• Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
• Welders, Cutters, Solderers & Brazers

Industries

Industries associated with this job task:

• All Other Specialty Trade Contractors
• Boat Building
• Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance
• Commercial and Institutional Building Construction
• CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS
• Fine Arts Schools
• Finish Carpentry Contractors
• HEAVY AND CIVIL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION
• Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction
• Industrial Building Construction
• Line-Haul Railroads
• New Housing Operative Builders
• New Multifamily Housing Construction (except Operative Builders)
• New Single-Family Housing Construction (except Operative Builders)
• Other Building Finishing Contractors
• Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
• Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance
• Painting and Wall Covering Contractors
• Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing
• REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE
• Roofing Contractors
• Ship Building and Repairing