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The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint.
Hundreds of young women were hired for the well-paying painting jobs because their small hands were well suited for the exacting, detailed work. Radium had been discovered just 20 years earlier by French physicists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie , and its properties were not well known.
6 Απρ 2023 · Explore the haunting story of the Radium Girls, a group of women exposed to lethal amounts of radium while working in watch factories in early 20th-century America.
8 Αυγ 2019 · The women workers developed mouth sores, their jaws crumbled, their legs snapped, they collapsed and died. The company paid hush money to the Radium victims, then claimed they had died of...
10 Μαΐ 2024 · French radium workers used small sticks with cotton wadding rather than paintbrushes, she said. Although the five New Jersey women could eat raw liver to help counteract the anemia-like effects of radiation sickness, they should not hope for a cure for radium poisoning.
25 Απρ 2017 · The case of the radium girls would also have an impact on establishing strict guidelines for worker safety and compensation beyond the Manhattan Project. In 1949, the United States Congress passed a law which gave workers the right to receive compensation for occupational illnesses.
19 Δεκ 2017 · Known as the "Radium Girls," these workers were putting their health at risk by lip-pointing the brush and ingesting radioactive radium.
