Families Fight Piketon (Ohio) Plant Benefits Ruling

Another travesty of justice. :grr:

Link: http://tinyurl.com/qokdva

Families Fight Piketon Plant Benefits Ruling
5 hrs ago | 155 views
By TERRY KINNEY

Associated Press Writer

PIKETON — Relatives of workers who died of exposure to radiation or toxic materials at a Cold War-era uranium enrichment plant in Ohio are fighting a ruling by state officials that keeps them from receiving workers’ compensation death benefits.

They say they should not be penalized for missing a deadline for filing claims because the government withheld information for years and workers did not know they were working in a life-threatening environment....

....In 2001, the government acknowledged that workers had been exposed to toxic substances — radiation, heavy metals, asbestos and harsh solvents and acids — while working at various sites as employees of Energy Department contractors.

Another Piketon plaintiff, Eva Prall, 75, of Waverly, said she, too, was left in the dark when her husband, Harold, died of lymphoma in 1982 after working at the plant for 27 years....

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