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NASD: Livestock Confinement Dust And Gases |
 | | Confinement dusts and gases can affect any exposed person within a short time, and in extreme cases have caused sudden death or have forced owners, employees, and veterinarians to stay out of confinement buildings or seek other employment. |
 | | Confinement house owners and managers, hired hands, and farm family members may work in the houses anywhere from a few hours a week to eight or more hours daily. |
 | | Confinement workers' lung functions do not differ significantly from those of workers in conventional swine buildings when baseline PFT's (FEV and FVC) are measured in the morning, before work begins.1721 However, these pulmonary function values of most confinement house workers do decrease significantly through the workday. |
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