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New Jersey Radium Dial Workers And The Dynamics Of Occupational Disease Litigation In The Early Twentieth Century, The, Kenneth A. Deville, Mark E. Steiner
New Jersey Radium Dial Workers And The Dynamics Of Occupational Disease Litigation In The Early Twentieth Century, The, Kenneth A. Deville, Mark E. Steiner
Missouri Law Review
Between 1917 and 1923 over 800 women worked for the United States Radium Corporation ("USRC") in Orange, New Jersey handpainting wrist-watch faces with a substance made luminescent by radioactive materials. While these workers were exposed to injurious, even mortal, levels of radiation, less than a dozen received any compensation for their injuries. These features compounded the workers' legal problems once they entered the formal legal system by dramatically complicating attempts to prove causation, by raising the specter of the statute of limitations defense, and by playing a major role in the settlement negotiation process. As a consequence, even when some …