At the present time employees are tested monthly for blood lead levels and for EPP and they are informed of the test results.

.~ - Ponca City ALL SAMPLE RESULTS: Chemical VCM Lead Total Particulates < PEL No. % 92 93.9 26 92.9 3 100.0 > PEL(OVEREXPOSURES) No. % 6 6.1 2 7.1 0 0.0 OVEREXPOSURES: Job Class Compound Operator Compounder Painter/Carpenter Reactor Operator t Yard Operator Reactor Operator Exposure 40.0* Micrograms Lead/m3 44.0* Micrograms Lead/ri)3 2.7 ppm, VCM 1.1 ppm, VCM 1.5* ppm, VCM 2.0 ppm, VCM 'Source Employee worked on Compound Line III all shift.

As to past surveys for lead.

Compounder 72.0 Micrograms Employee overexposed while Lead/MJ charging Line III blenders.

. ^ LEAD - CANCER I attended a 1-day research workshop cosponsored by EPA and ILZRO.

Navistar, Freightliner, and Wagner supported a plan in which most asbestos use was banned after a 5-year lead time.

Also, " two operators were monitored for lead exposure in Strip Preform.

The question, of course, concerns the total amount of the excreted leadfassuming that the kidneys have not been damaged by the initial excretion of excessive quantities of lead.

Uptain ; May 5f 1982 Subject : VCM/LEAD/ANTIMONY/TOTAL DUST DOSIMETRY FREQUENCIES The results of 1981 VCM, lead, antimony, and total dust dosimetry are summarized in Tables I, II, III and IV (attached).

At the present time employees are tested monthly for blood lead levels and for EPP and they are informed of the test results.

* 46.1 Micrograms Lead/MJ Employee overexposed while weighing up Tribase XL in the Color Weigh Room

Biggs: Enclosed are four (4) copies of the manuscript, "Developing an Air Quality Standard for Lead from Community Studies," which I am submitting for publication in Environmental Science and Technology.

Children of workers employed in secondary lead smelters and in battery plants have been found to have excessive lead absorption and even overt lead poisoning following ex posure to lead dust carried home on parents' clothing [5-7].

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