43 Pa. Stat. § 474
Every employer shall, without cost to the employes, provide the following devices, means, and methods for the protection of his employes, who, while engaged in any work or process included in section two, are exposed to lead dusts, lead fumes, or lead solutions:--
Every work or process referred to in section two, including the corroding or oxidizing of lead, and the crushing, mixing, sifting, grinding, and packing of all lead salts or other compounds referred to in section two, shall be so conducted, and such adequate devices provided and maintained by the employer, as to protect the employe as far as possible from contact with lead dust or lead fumes. Every kettle, vessel, receptacle, or furnace in which lead, in any form referred to in section two, is being melted or treated, and any place where the contents of such kettles, receptacles, or furnaces are discharged, shall be provided with a hood connected with an efficient air-exhaust; all vessels or containers, in which dry lead in any chemical form or combination referred to in section two is being conveyed from one place to another within the factory, shall be equipped, at the places where the same are filled or discharged, with hoods having connection with an efficient air-exhaust; and all hoppers, chutes, conveyors, elevators, separators, vents from separators, dumps, pulverizers, chasers, dry-pans, or other apparatus for drying pulp lead, dry-pans, dump, and all barrel packers and cars, or other receptacles into which corrosions are at the time being emptied, shall be connected with an efficient dust-collecting system; such system to be regulated by the discharge of air from a fan, pump, or other apparatus, either through a cloth dust-collector, having an area of not less than one-half square foot of cloth to every cubic foot of air passing through it per minute, the dust-collector to be placed in a separate room, which no employe shall be required or allowed to enter except for essential repairs while the works are in operation, or such other apparatus as will efficiently remove the lead dusts from the air of the workrooms.
Where basins are provided there shall be at least one basin for every five such employes; and where troughs are provided, at least two feet of trough length for every five such employes. The employer shall also furnish nail-brushes and soap, and shall provide at least three clean towels per week for each such employe. A time allowance of not less than ten minutes, at the employer's expense, shall be made to each such employe for the use of said washroom before the lunch hour and at the close of the day's work.
The employer engaged in the manufacture of white lead, red lead, litharge, sugar of lead, arsenate of lead, lead chromate, lead sulphate, lead nitrate, or fluo-silicate shall also provide at least one shower-bath for every ten such employes. The bath shall be approached by wooden runways, be provided with movable wooden floor gratings, be supplied with controlled hot and cold water, and be kept clean. The employer shall furnish soap, and shall provide at least two clean bath towels per week for each such employe. An additional time allowance of not less than ten minutes, at the employer's expense, shall be made to each such employe for the use of said baths, at least twice a week, at the close of the day's work. The employer shall keep a record of each time that such baths are used by each employe, which record shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times by the State Department of Labor and Industry, and also by the State Department of Health.
43 P.S. § 474