Title:
Provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), this historic image, shot
Description:
Provided by the Center for Disease Control's (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), this historic image, shot inside a Connecticut hat manufacturing plant, depicted a hatters' industry worker manipulating a hatting cone, on which hats are shaped using the steam that could be seen wafting throughout the workplace. Working with newly processed fur, which had been 'carroted', or fixed with mercury nitrate, workers could be exposed to airborne mercury, thereby, suffering the detrimental neurologic consequences from its inhalation. Using steam facilitated the airborne dissemination of this neurotoxic element. It could not be determined from this image, as to whether or not this man was wearing a filtered breathing mask.
Creator:
CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH
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Date Added:
November 27, 2012