title: Poisoning of workers working in small lead-based units.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  No data are available with the labor departments among the workers of small-scale lead-based units with regard to lead poisoning. One hundred and ninety-five workers were investigated for lead exposure and three were found exceeding the limit of 80 mg/dL, which required a treatment for lead poisoning.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess the exposure and health risk in workers working in small lead-based units.
  
  
  METHODS
  Random sampling is selected from the cross-sectional medical study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medical examination cum biochemical/hematological investigations along with blood lead estimation were carried out in these workers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Epi-Info and SPSS 16.0 were used for statistical analysis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Workers' blood lead levels were brought down from 114.4, 110.0 and 120.6 mg/dL with treatment of D-penicillamine to 40 mg/dL. It may be concluded that lead poisoning is a preventable public health problem that particularly affects the industrial workers in small lead-based units.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Occupational Health, Meghani Nagar, Ahmedabad - 380 016, India.
authors.forename: Harsiddha G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Sadhu
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Amin
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Parikh
authors.forename: N G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Sathawara
authors.forename: Umesh
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Virani
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Lakkad
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Shivgotra
authors.forename: Shruti
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Patel