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The True Story of the Radium Girls
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In the 1920s, a devastating health crisis swept through American factories. Tragically taking the lives of 100s of young women and creating some of the most gruesome autopsies ever recorded...This is the true story of the Radium Girls.

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@DrBenMiles

2 months ago

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@smoothpoon86

2 months ago

ā€œThe body confuses it for calciumā€ is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever heard

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@ProfessorPepperr

2 months ago

Just a reminder that plenty of companies would do the same thing today if given the chance

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@Bestiola

2 months ago

Making up lies to make those worker women seem to have "loose morals" instead of admitting your own mistake is diabolical of those companies. They straight up went for a witch hunt.

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@christophr3538

1 month ago

SMALL example in comparison to this. But I worked as a security guard for Target. I was the plain clothes, "undercover" guy. One snowy night, I was doing a perimeter check outside. I slipped and hit the back of my head. Blood running down my back, from the gash on my head. I CHOSE to go to urgent care, thinking I was going to dot the I's and cross the T's for HR, you know, workman's comp. Because if you choose to not go right away, they won't pay for a later visit, due to the injury. I got patched up and everything, not bad. But when I came back to work, just a couple of days later, I was given a write up for not wearing non-slip shoes. Then I was told that, I needed to take a drug test as "company policy". Good thing I had insurance to cover me. But company's don't care about you. They care about their money.

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@sirdanielsmalley9657

2 months ago

If you ever think, "big corporations would never do that!" Just remember, they absolutely have and will.

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@TheBaileyandashlyn

2 months ago

If i remember correctly, their bosses didnt believe it was safe. The people who handled the shipment of the radium all wore a lot of PPE to protect themselves. But the labor was cheap, so.. why tell the watch-painting employees?

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@turtleyamazing6091

2 months ago

Remember kids, regulations are written in blood. Money will always be more important than your life to these companies.

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@vandandoshi2432

1 month ago

The worst thing about this is during the court case the cooperation lengthened the case knowing that the women's would not survive after sometime and the cooperation won

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@UnKnown_Gaming2479

2 months ago

These women never got the justice they deserved. They were spat on, laughed at, lied to, and forced to suffer. And for what? Because continuing the brutal suffering of others, is easier than admitting blame, and trying to actually do something to help😢

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@HOTTDOGS18

2 months ago

Women were on their death beds still trying to fight the companies so that others wouldn’t succumb to the same painful fate. I’ve read a few books about this and it’s a real life horror movie, gruesome. ā¤

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@DevashishGuptaOfficial

2 months ago

That putting the brush in the mouth shouldn't have been done even with any other paint

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@kevindragon3883

2 months ago

And this is why labor laws, OSHA, unions and protecting employee's rights are so important.

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@fletcherenfield9474

2 months ago

The company wasn't "wrong". They knew and they lied. Don't give them the excuse of ignorance, they don't deserve it. It wasn't a tragedy, it was an atrocity. Tragedies just happen, atrocities are committed.

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@IchiHishi

2 months ago

They weren't just wrong. They knew radium was dangerous and lied to those women.

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@Broken_hope1

2 months ago

This really opens a door for more questions if they back then used radium so much thinking it was safe not knowing of its radioactivity I wonder if there’s anything that we still use today that’s dangerous as much but we just haven’t figured out

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@astraeanova4280

2 months ago

It's terrible how much these poor women suffered before their deaths and its awful how these companies acted before they were finally brought to justice.

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@Fandam999-gu3fc

2 months ago

Radium istelf doesn't glow, just like most radioactive materials. The thing that glowed in the paint was zinc sulfide - a phosphor. And it was activated by radium - thru radioluminescence (meaning that ionizing radiation excites electrons in phosphor to a higher power level and they return to default power level by emmiting photons - light).

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@derekwaite3225

2 months ago

Im from the town the newspaper clip is from and on top of what the company did to these women, they also dumped a large amount of radioactive waste in several spots acrossed town, the last of which just finally finished being cleaned up just a few years ago.

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@nephicus339

2 months ago

0:54 - One of the worst parts is that they were told it was completely safe, while they watched men bring the radium laced paints in wearing lead lined aprons and other PPE.
So they, the company, KNEW it wasn't safe, but told the ladies it was anyway. Literally sentencing them to a slow and painful death knowingly.

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