Thread: Lead bullets and their risk to human health

Originally Posted by csmiffy

Breathe it in as fumes like the old school panel beaters or on a range, vastly different.
get it in your lungs and it's bad

OSH and PPE were pretty much non existent in the panelbeating industry when i started , bog was a very new novelty item , what we couldnt hammer and file was leaded lead was also a staple for fuel tank repairs no masks on top of that the painters would be spraying enamels loaded with iso cyanates they would be wearing masks but the panelbeaters would be breathing in all that crap ...... i get my lungs tested annually .... up until last year i always had the lung capacity of someone half my age but now its catching up with me , probably by the time i retire my lung capacity will be that of a pensioner ..... if im lucky ...and dont get me started on the hearing protection we werent allowed to wear because we had to be able to hear the hammer or slapstick hitting the right spot.

ps ... im not worried about lead bullets