Notes from the Field: Lead Exposures Among Employees at a Bullet Manufacturing Company --- Missouri, 2017
by from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on (#4057V)
In October 2017, at the request of a Missouri bullet manufacturing, CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health conducted a health hazard evaluation to determine routes and extent of lead exposure. Their findings indicated elevated blood lead levels among almost all employees and air lead conentrations below federal guidelines and recommended a workplace lead control program be used.