A San Leandro, CA, scrap yard assigns workers to cut up radiators and batteries with acetylene torches, producing such severe lead exposures that their children show up on the state’s childhood lead poisoning registry because of “take-home†exposure from their fathers’ work clothes.
A Fremont, CA, semiconductor plant exposes its workers to levels of airborne arsenic, a known human carcinogen, four times the regulatory limit and does nothing to reduce the exposures despite two years of internal industrial hygiene monitoring documenting the overexposures.