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Recycling lead in a lead-acid battery recovery facility

The worker is ladling molten recycled lead into billets in a lead-acid battery recovery facility. Any manufacturing operation involving lead has the potential for overexposure, and so the elements of a lead program (including the provision of work clothes and personal protective equipment) are in place here. (Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2008. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic [CC BY 2.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0.)