Florida’s only lead smelter exposed hundreds of workers to high lead levels
Hundreds of workers at Gopher Resource have been exposed to dangerous levels of lead and other dangerous chemicals.
Link: https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2021/investigations/lead-factory/gopher-workers/
Gopher exposed workers for years to levels of lead in the air that were hundreds of times higher than the federal limit. At times, the concentration was considered life-threatening. Workers described regular tasks that left them caked with dust, as though they’d been dunked in powdered sugar.