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U.S. Dept of Labor Energy Employees Occupational Illness claim
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Margo Wesley (Couch)
 09-27-2013 01:22am
Has anyone lost a relative who worked at the plants who died of lung cancer and filed a claim from the U.S. Dept. of Labor, Energy employees Occupational Illness ? In my family - five people - four of us have had some form of cancer.Anyone else have similar family history?


Re: U.S. Dept of Labor Energy Employees Occupational Illness claim
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Nancy Snowden
 10-10-2013 05:44pm
This is not unusual.  We also have a lot of very rare cancers in our class along with auto immune disease.  The accident in Russia documented the connection with auto immune disease and exposure.

Although the Energy Employees Compensation Act list the area of Clinton Engineering (which is the city of Oak Ridge)  (notice that they hid that fact quite nicely) as a qualifying area it goes on to say that you are only covered if you are an employee of the qualifying employers.  Thus a garbage worker during the time that the government owned everything who was exposed and can establish where he was exposed can be covered however his family which lived next door to the site is not.

The key word here is Employee.

Many women whose husbands who worked at the plants had much higher rates of ovarian and breast cancer.

There are several radioactive sites around the city of Oak Ridge.  Over at the old used materials site on  warehouse road is really hot.

The unions have documented that from the beginning until about 1948 the workers at k25 did not use uniforms or change clothes before going home and hugging their wife and kids even those who worked in areas which were highly  contaminated with yellow cake.  Even after 48 there was still a lot of contamination and they have updated the uniform and procedure requirements many times because they found out they were not appropriate.  They have never checked these houses for what may have been brought home from workers at the plants on their clothes or shoes.  Not a nice thought.

You can do one of two things get a class action suit started and there are plenty of people who will go in to it with you and thus it will not cost anything if you can find the right lawyer and one of the really good ones or you can start an effort to get congress to include any one in the designated area with emphasis on family of workers to be included in the Act.

Strangely enough the Act passed to compensate the inhabitants of the western states which were exposed to radiation during the testing are covered just because they live there but that is because Sen Udall is very powerful and fights for his people.  He has recently gotten them qualified for the EEOCA act also even though they are not employees so there is strong background to do this is some one will pick up the banner and run with it.



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Wesley Self
 12-24-2013 09:55am
My father Arnold K. Self was a chemical process foreman at Y-12 for 35 years.  He died in 1990 of liver, pancreas, and bile duct cancer.  My mother collected a sum of money several years later but I never asked her how much.  
I worked at Y-12 for three and a half years and was diagnosed with tongue cancer this past March, two weeks after my birthday, March 7th for those who give presents.  
Having applied for compensation I am waiting, waiting and waiting to see if My dose reconstruction fits the parameters they have set.  By the way I was just told I'm in remission but considered cured.  Happy Hollidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever to all.



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