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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 protected themselves from it but not their lower level work irs. a lot of the lower level employees died because of it. they sued because of it, and the suit became a foundation governing ho...