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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.
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...
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.
1 Μαρ 2017 · During World War I and the years thereafter, dozens of teenage girls and young women worked in radium-dial factories, painting glow-in-the-dark numbers onto watches and airplane instruments....
this article. by Claudia Clark, is not just another review of cancer among radium dial painters, but a historical study of the social milieu of the early radium bone necrosis patients and their fight for compensation.
She was among the women who painted luminous numbers on watch, clock, and instrument dials using radium-laced paint in factories in New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut. Dubbed “Radium Girls” and “Living Dead,” they suffered radium poisoning and painful, early deaths.
Hundreds of young dial painters suffered from a variety of acute disintegrating bones and died painfully. The company hired a doctor from the Industrial Hygiene section at Harvard Medical School (1924) who found no direct cause of harm; the cause was identified as “occupational poisoning.”
