. "1 Introduction." Potential Health Risks to DOD Firing-Range Personnel from Recurrent Lead Exposure. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012.
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Potential Health Risks to DOD Firing-Range Personnel from Recurrent Lead Exposure
TABLE 1-2 Airborne Lead Concentration During Performance of Different Job Duties on US Navy Weapons and Small-arms Firing Ranges
Range Cleaning
Ammunition Handling
NOCa
Outdoor Range Firing
Indoor Range Firing
Range Supervision
Backstop Pit Cleanup
Breeching
Lead Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer
Weapons and Ordnance NOCa
No. samples
19
3
138
9
50
106
19
14
11
4
Maximum, μg/m3
848
78.4
482
558
442
342
29.6
18.7
40.6
0.92
Minimum, μg/m3
2.12
25.5
0.46
4
0.71
0.71
0.71
3.5
0.8
0.71
Mean, μg/m3
190
44
48
22
46
23
9
9
13
1
Geometric mean, μg/m3
50
39
13
15
11
8
5
7
8
1
Geometric standard deviation, μg/m3
8,169
1,849
5,980
2,669
4,730
4,274
3,669
1,940
3,476
1,140
Samples above PEL, %
58
33
31.9
22.2
16
14.2
0
0
0
0
95th percentileb, μg/m3
1,583
1,060
2,400
76
148
83
39
21
61
1
aNot otherwise classified. Not a specific operation that can be further classified.
bLognormal distribution.
Source: Personal communication, J. Seibert, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment, May 2, 2012.
