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| SIC | Year | Activity | Workers | Blood Lead |
| 1976 | storage tank manuf. and repair, machine shop work, metal surface treating, paint manuf., spray painting, railroad machine shop and storage battery repair (Finland studies of 2,209 lead workers) | >70 | ||
| 1984 | 33 occupations (1505 New Zealand workers); highest blood leads in painters spraying glass or metal and workers making lead products such as lead headed nails; no or low risk in electroplaters, electronic or jewelry assemblers and armature winders | |||
| 1987 | MMWR report of 4 states with blood lead surveillance: 524 workers >50; lead smelting, brass foundries, battery manuf., construction, ceramics manuf., plastics production, stained-glass window production, ammunition manuf., and firing ranges | |||
| 1987 | Texas workers with blood lead > 40: lead storage batteries, cable and wire products, ammunition, pipes, pewter, lead glazed pottery, crystal glass, pigments, gasoline antiknock additives, weather resistant coatings, scrap operations, grinding operations, repair or demolition of lead painted steel, automobile radiator repair shops and firing instructors at indoor firing ranges | |||
| 1990 | 3077 blood leads over 8 months in California: 25% of 355 workers > 40; secondary lead smelting, battery manuf., brass, lead or copper foundries accounted for 55% of all reports; also construction (demolition & paint stripping), radiator repair, pottery, ceramics manuf., gun firing ranges | |||
| 1998 | Taiwan blood lead surveillance 1994-95; industries with highest levels: chemical products manuf., battery recycling and production, basic chemicals manuf., ship building and repair, plastic products manuf. | |||
| 1041 | 1988 | fire assays on ore samples; Pb in air 100 in furnace room, 46 in office | ||
| 1311 | 1995 | cut and connect oil pipeline painted with lead paint using acetylene torch | 1 | chelated |
| 1521 | 1963 | decorative and house painters | 107 | normal |
| 1521 | 1995 | N. Carolina house painters | 127 | 7 |
| 1521 | 1997 | NIOSH ABLES 4th quarter 1996: 4 cases of occupational lead poisoning in residential painters removing lead paint without PPE | ||
| 1622 | 1996 | abrasive blasting of a steel bridge during paint removal | 5 of 22 | >50 |
| 1622 | 1997 | construction workers renovating a previously deleaded bridge | 3 of 44 | >40 |
| 1795 | 1977 | metal burners engaged in dismantling a lead coated iron roof | 12 | > 118 |
| 1795 | 1988 | metal cutters dismantling a water filtration facility (lead-based paint) | 47 | 59 |
| 1795 | 1994 | demolition of 2 tenement buildings (built pre-war) in the Bronx, NY | 2 | 21 |
| 2752 | 1961 | 5 printing works in Milan; 2 cases of mild saturnism | 100 | |
| 2752 | 1982 | Newspaper printing workers (Indonesian study of 2000 lead workers) | < 30 | |
| 2752 | 1987 | printers in Baghdad | 97 | 24 |
| 2810 | 1982 | Coatings and Color Divisions; highest blood leads in smelter operators in the Coatings Division | 23/109 | >40 |
| 2816 | 1990 | employed by company that formulates color concentrates for plastics | 1 | 52 |
| 2821 | 1975 | PVC (polyvinyl chloride) factories | 152 | 37 (median) |
| 2869 | 1989 | production workers manuf. lead sulfate and lead stearate (lead-based stabilizers used in manuf. of PVC) | 48 | |
| 3069 | 1974 | auto tire and rubber hose factory | ? | up to 50 |
| 3069 | 1976 | rubber hose | ? | 32 |
| 3079 | 1974 | PVC manuf. (Finland studies of 2,209 lead workers) | 37 | |
| 3079 | 1982 | using stabilizers in PVC manuf. | ? | 40-49 (ave.) |
| 3079 | 1982 | PVC and plastics (Indonesian study of 2000 lead workers) | 70 | |
| 3079 | 1987 | manuf. PVC pipes | 23 | 33-105 |
| 3079 | 1988 | manuf. PVC materials with lead-based stabilizers | 49 | 49 |
| 3079 | 1988 | producing lead pipe and lead plate in a PVC plant | 77 | 16-96 |
| 3211 | 1978 | stained glass window production | 2 | normal |
| 3211 | 1980 | professional stained glass workers | 12 | increased |
| 3229 | 1974 | crystal glass (Finland studies of 2,209 lead workers) | 41 | |
| 3229 | 1995 | workers in lead-colored glass factory in Beijing for 2 to 17 years | 36 | 26-79 |
| 3231 | 1984 | cutting, grinding and polishing crystal into various art objects | 29 | |
| 3231 | 1991 | cutting, grinding and polishing crystal into various art objects | 12 | |
| 3262 | 1980 | workers in 4 ceramics factories in Italy: high blood levels in some even after all feasible factory improvements; reduction of lead in raw materials recommended; | ||
| 3262 | 1980 | 8 ceramics factories in Italy: glazing, kiln, various operations, decorators and packers; blood lead levels: glazing (75), kiln (64), packing (44) | ||
| 3262 | 1985 | Italian ceramics factories; 63% in one factory >40 | ||
| 3269 | 1991 | pottery artist | 1 | high |
| 3269 | 1994 | cloisonne workers, 11 glaze workers and 59 ware workers | 19 of 49 | >60 |
| 3284 | 1986 | manuf. electrical components using fritted glass | 34 | 47 (median) |
| 3321 | 1974 | foundry (Finland studies of 2,209 lead workers) | 53 | |
| 3332 | 1982 | secondary lead smelting workers (Indonesian study of 2000 lead workers) | 70 | |
| 3341 | 1974 | lead scrap smelting (Finland studies of 2,209 lead workers) | 70 | |
| 3357 | 1980 | cable production workers | 45 | 37 |
| 3443 | 1991 | lined steel tanks with lead | 2 | >50 |
| 3443 | 1991 | relined steel tanks with lead | 32 | |
| 3443 | 1992 | lining steel tanks with lead sheets | 22 | 4-38 |
| 3478 | 1967 | jewelery enamellers using lead-borosilicate enamel frits | 3 | 64-94 |
| 3491 | 1990 | manuf. precision valves: Pb air from 32 to 120 ug/m3 | normal | |
| 3499 | 1987 | lead medallion production: highest air levels from grinding and buffing | 1 | high |
| 3523 | 1980 | Steiger Tractor, Inc; Pb air "none detected" to 1.9 mg/m3 | ||
| 3559 | 1977 | manuf. of lead anodes | 12 | high |
| 3661 | 1978 | underground repairing of old telephone cables; Pb air <200mg/m3 | ||
| 3679 | 1994 | manuf electronic components at United Seal Co. | 3 of 7 | >25 |
| 3691 | 1974 | storage battery manuf. (Finland studies of 2,209 lead workers) | 66 | |
| 3691 | 1982 | battery manuf. (Indonesian study of 2000 lead workers) | 52 | |
| 3691 | 1996 | lead battery manuf | 72 | 48 |
| 3714 | 1982 | automobile disk process workers (Indonesian study of 2000 lead workers) | 35 | |
| 3731 | 1974 | shipbreaking (Finland studies of 2,209 lead workers) | 49 | |
| 3911 | 1983 | costume jewelry industry: excessive exposure to lead in casting processes | ||
| 3914 | 1976 | factory manuf. pewter goods: 26 of 50 workers had signs of lead poisoning | ||
| 4813 | 1980 | survey of 90 telephone cable splicers | 5 of 90 | >40 |
| 4813 | 1980 | telephone splicers | 90 | 28 |
| 4841 | 1992 | soldering cable TV converter boxes—airborne lead below detection level | ||
| 4911 | 1982 | splicing and soldering workers (Indonesian study of 2000 lead workers) | 27 | |
| 4911 | 1994 | habitually chewing the plastic coating of electric wires; employed assembling electric connections in new buildings | 1 | high; chelated |
| 4911 | 1996 | 5 worksites: telephone cable strippers replacing lead sheathed telephone cable with fiber optics | some | > 100 |
| 5093 | 1996 | dismantling/cutting (acetylene torch) of automobiles at a salvage facility | 8 | 8-56 |
| 7539 | 1974 | car radiator repair (Finland studies of 2,209 lead workers) | 38 | |
| 7539 | 1987 | 24 radiator repair shops | 29 of 75 | >40 |
| 7539 | 1991 | radiator repair (ave. of 8-10 per day, 15 per day in peak season; installation of exhaust hood reduced Pb in air from 193 to 25 ug/m3 | ||
| 7539 | 1993 | 3 radiator repair shops in Cincinnati: Pb in air below PEL in 2 and averaged above 200 ug/m3 in 3rd shop | ||
| 7539 | 1997 | 42 radiator repair shops in Colorado; 22% of workers tested had blood lead levels > 40 | ||
| 7692 | 1985 | soldering seams of cars | high | |
| 9221 | 1989 | cadets firing nonjacketed lead bullets in covered outdoor firing range | 5-26 | |
| 9221 | 1990 | covered outdoor firing range—Pb in air: nonjacketed lead bullets 128 ug/m3; copper jacketed bullets 9.5 ug/m3 | ||
| 9221 | 1992 | instructors at indoor shooting galleries in NYC | 37 | >40 |
| 9221 | 1994 | 6 target shooting clubs in New Zealand; shooters averaged 70 min/wk for 6 months when blood lead samples obtained | 55 | |
Also see Table 2.5 in NIOSH HHE Final Reports with BLL Data, 1978-1995.
Revised May 30, 2018