Lead poisoning in telephone cable strippers: A new setting for an old problem

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 351-354

  Lax, Michael B ^a,e   Keogh, James P ^b   Jeffery, Nancy ^c   Henneberger, Paul K ^d   Klitzman, Susan ^c   Simon, David G ^d   Joyce, John ^b  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^e Ctrl NY Occup Hlth Clin Ctr   (United States)

Author keywords

lead poisoning; lead standard; OSHA enforcement; sentinel health events; telephone cable stripping; workplace interventions

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; LEAD POISONING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; WORKPLACE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; LEAD; LEAD POISONING; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 0029738703     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199609)30:3<351::AID-AJIM14>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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