ID#: 9694
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An African American worker in a Connecticut hat making plant directing carroted rabbit fur into a mixing blower machine. The plant was part of the 1937-1938 PHS industrial hygiene and engineering study of mercury exposure and its health effects in the hatmaking industry. The worker wears a dust make to protect him from inhaling fur fibers. At this point in the hat making process, the fur would be generating mercury nitrate dust into the atmosphere.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Barbara Jenkins, NIOSH; USPHS
Creation Date: 1937
Photo Credit: U.S. Public Health Service
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