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23 Απρ 2024 · When the Radium Girls discovered their sickness, they bravely fought against the corporations responsible for their plight. These women are remembered as heroic and tragic figures in history, and their bravery led to stricter regulations, protecting countless others from similar fates.
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials – watch dials and hands with self-luminous paint.
8 Αυγ 2019 · Using safer techniques, clock and watch dials continued to be painted with radium until the 1960s. On March 1, 2014, the last of the radium girls, Mae Keane, died at her home in Middlebury...
4 ημέρες πριν · It is so easy to become angry at the terrible injustice inflicted upon Catherine and other dial-painters who suffered such painful deaths at the hands of company executives who knew the truth about radium poisoning. When I see a picture of Catherine’s children, aged 3 and 5, kneeling in prayer before a crucifix after their mother’s death, I ...
6 Απρ 2023 · Known as the Radium Girls, female watchmakers painted dials with self-luminous paint filled with radioactive radium, leading to severe health complications. While the men wore lead aprons to protect themselves from the radiation, the women were given nothing.
12 Μαρ 2017 · Completely unaware of the dangers concerning radium, around 4,000 women hired by various radium-dial companies were poisoning themselves on a daily basis. The glow-in-the-dark paint was perceived as so harmless that the women would goof around, painting their lips and nails with it.
5 Μαΐ 2017 · If the women weren’t killed by the same jaw problems that had taken Mollie Maggia, they eventually suffered from sarcomas — huge cancerous bone tumors that could grow anywhere on their bodies.
