Re: Lead in Gasoline
I was surprised at how much lead was and still is used. In garden hoses made prior to 2007? Who knew? Of course, it was in high percentages of the brass in faucet fixtures up until not too long ago. Remarkable. You can see from this piece how long it has been known to cause health problems.
When I worked at a GM plant once, there was a guy who had worked in the lead booth grinding off excess lead where they had leaded over the seam to put the roof on the cars. He had a leak in his air hose to the suit that he wore and he got lead poisoning. He looked awful, but had been put on a light duty job. BTW, I was a janitor and sometimes had to go clean up the lead dust in the lead booth. I don't recall that I was given a respirator, but hopefully I was. This was around 1971.
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