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They were doing fine work and they were small brushes they were working with. it was standard operating procedure to lick the paintbrush hundreds of times a day. and the radium girls in those factories died because of it. in the 1920s, the united states radium corporation was sued by their own low level employees who were dying from exposure to radio activity encountered in their every day work on their job. the upper level scientists knew it was radioactive, they prot t protected themselves fro...
Radium Girls Standard Operating Procedure Paintbrush Hundreds Of Times Radio Activity United States Radium Corporation Mining Operations
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