Do You Worry About Exposure To Lead?

[TNBassin']

Spent 45 yrs. breathing welding fumes. Ain't skeered "o" nuthin!!!

Hootie

I make silver, and some of the fumes, chemicals, and especially the dust present in my work environment will surely cause me more problems before lead will. It's just funny that all our lives we are taught that lead is bad, yet our favorite hobby/sport uses a ton of it.

[BiteMe73]

Who's navy? Aircraft Carriers have been nuclear power for over 50 years, unless you are talking about the smaller flat tops.

Jet exhaust is a mixture of unburned fuel and sulfuric or nitrous acid, that could be a health issue; serving in the military is dfeinately hazardous duty.

Tom

Not all carriers were nuclear powered. I was on the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and she was decommisioned only like 3 years ago. She was one of the last conventional carriers. When I was in the Navy back in the very early '90's she burned oil. I can still taste the smoke from the stack today when I think back. It'll never leave me.

[MrSwimJig]

I am definitely not afraid of it.  It seems like everything can cause cancer know a days...

[SirSnookalot]

Being in the scrap business I can't think of too many times that we didn't have thousands of pounds of lead around in many different forms.  Sure no one was licking the stuff but much of it was handled by hand just to be palletized.  Back when I first started linotype was on it's way out in the printing business, I personally emptied drawers by hand tons upon tons of typeset and loaded dross with a shovel with no ill affects ever.  I handled so much in a 2 day period it made me enough money to start my business.

[Oldplug]

My Navy AB3 USS ESSEX CVA 9. If you were not inflight operations you spent a lot of time chipping and painting with red lead paint. That might cause some problems today for some veterans. I have no idea.

[merc1997]

for those folks that think fishing lures made of lead are a hazord, will pose a question.  where, the H----, do you think lead comes from to start with??  it comes from out of the ground.  because of that, we have water flowing through lead and other things.  do we not have anyone that uses common sense any longer??  and for those that have made the use of lead in paint illegal because kids have been licking the door, where are the parents at??  i would suspect that growing up, i might have tried licking the door frame a couple of times, but after i had my hand slapped a couple of times for doing so, i learned to not be doing that.  i know for without a doubt in my mind that lead is less of a hazard than lazy parents.

 

bo

[*Hootie]

for those folks that think fishing lures made of lead are a hazord, will pose a question. where, the H----, do you think lead comes from to start with?? it comes from out of the ground. because of that, we have water flowing through lead and other things. do we not have anyone that uses common sense any longer?? and for those that have made the use of lead in paint illegal because kids have been licking the door, where are the parents at?? i would suspect that growing up, i might have tried licking the door frame a couple of times,

Door lickin was always way down on my list of fun things to do......lol

Hootie

[Koofy Smacker]

for those folks that think fishing lures made of lead are a hazord, will pose a question.  where, the H----, do you think lead comes from to start with??  it comes from out of the ground.  because of that, we have water flowing through lead and other things.  do we not have anyone that uses common sense any longer??  and for those that have made the use of lead in paint illegal because kids have been licking the door, where are the parents at??  i would suspect that growing up, i might have tried licking the door frame a couple of times, but after i had my hand slapped a couple of times for doing so, i learned to not be doing that.  i know for without a doubt in my mind that lead is less of a hazard than lazy parents.

 

bo

Lead doesnt come out of the ground as lead. It comes out as lead ore, (less than 10% lead) which is then crushed and burned in a blast furnace to separate all the minerals and metals out. The safety protocols which are in place within the plants pretty much limit exposure by workers (plus its mostly automated now). In its ore form, (most metals for that instance) arent very dangerous at all.

 

I only know these weird things because Im a geologist

 

Up around my region its asbestos you have to worry about a lot. We have a lot of serpentine which commonly forms with crysotile which is that hairy asbestos stuff

[jignfule]

I leave lead split shot in mi moth and chiw on it allot of the times an it hazent efficted me knot atol

[Trailer]

It sure is deadly on deer. And outside of the nervous ticks and slight mutation, I'm doing fine.

[flyfisher]

Not at all. I mainly use tungsten anyways. However, sun is what you should be worried about. Always wear sunscreen on a sunny day.

Actually sunscreen on any day where the sun is high in the sky, spring through fall really. I know friends who have been sunburned on a completely cloudy day before.

[Bankbeater]

When I was little I use to bite split shots all of the time.  That's probably what's wrong with me now .  Just wash your hands and remember not to put anything in your mouth and you should be ok.

[Brad70]

I live in Southeast Missouri a.k.a. "The Lead Belt". Growing up, we had huge "chat dumps" in nearly every town around here. They were enormous mounds of mine tailings. Within the last 5-10 years the EPA has been working to take these down and relocate the chat. Many yards in my area have had to been completely dug up up to 6 feet deep to remove all the lead tail minings left. I would not claim that Lead is harmless, but my entire community, all my family, have lived upon lead mining waste in our soil and our river systems and we are still kicking! I just don't feel as if limited exposure from some fishing tackle is enough to worry out IMO.

[fadetoblack21]

I'm gonna say that as long as your not eating large amounts of your led weights, it shouldn't pose a problem. Sun exposure is far more dangerous than the handling of led sinkers. . . 

[J Francho]

If you're worried about lead exposure, go to the doctor and have a test done.  It isn't very likely that incidental handling of lead tackle would cause a spike in your levels.

[Ratherbfishing]

The only one at risk of lead poisoning in my house is the one who breaks into it.