Government allows more cancer claims from LOOW
By AdminThe federal government is making it easier for individuals who got cancer after working at a Niagara County nuclear site to receive compensation because of a lack of available data about exposure at the facility.
Workers at the former Lake Ontario Ordnance Works, or their survivors, can make a claim for compensation if they had one of 22 types of cancer, under a recent decision by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
The move, which applies to individuals who worked there from 1944 through 1953, waives an aspect of the case review by the agency, called “dose reconstruction,” because of a lack of adequate data available about how much radiation workers may have been exposed to, agency spokeswoman Shannon Bradford said… more
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