I'm going to get flack over this, but...I did a shutdown in the worlds largest lead/zinc smelter, while I had always worked around liquid and solid lead, nothing prepared me for the level of personal protection that was required. Ebola suits, duct taped air tight with HD respirators. No company goes to those levels unless they had to.Simply too costly suiting up. If the lead levels in your weekly blood tests came up, you were fired. Better to lay you off than pay for some future compensation. A sharp but ruthless business practice .They could do that as we were employed by the contractor. After That, my attitude was " I'm not stupid enough to eat lead." As for steel, Mule Deer said he hated biting into steel. I use lead for trap . I don't eat clays.
