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Report of an Unusual Source of Lead Poisoning

Ruth Lilis, MD; Steven M. Green, MD; Jane Field, MD; Alf Fischbein, MD

JAMA. 1981;246(11):1233-1235.

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LEAD poisoning is a well-known occupational hazard in a number of industries and trades.^1-3 While working conditions and health status of employees in industries with well-recognized potential lead hazards are improving, unexpected sources of lead exposure continue to generate disease.⁴

We report a clinical case of lead poisoning that occurred as a consequence of an industrial accident— paint spray gun injury to the hand. Such accidents have attracted attention^5-8 for reasons related to the sequelae of the traumatic injury; to our knowledge, this is the first reported case of lead poisoning resulting from such an injury.

Report of a Case

A 41-year-old man, a painter, used a high-pressure paint-spraying gun to apply paint on the hull of a ship. On Jan 10, 1980, the hose of the paint-spraying installation broke, and paint was injected under high pressure into the palm of his left hand. He was first examined . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Department of Community Medicine (Drs Lilis, Field, and Fischbein), and the Department of Orthopedics (Dr Green), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy PI, New York, NY 10029 (Dr Lilis).

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