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Lead and silver mining, Creedo, Colorado, 1942 (2)

The man is facilitating the flow of lead ore. Note that he is smoking; this repetitive hand-to-mouth behavior increases the ingestion and inhalation of lead dust. (Source: Photographer Andreas Feininger [1906-1999] for the U.S. Office of War Information. Courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. Public domain.)