[CPEO-MEF] "Safety measures at Iowa Army Ammunition Plant were minimal"

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Safety measures at Iowa Army Ammunition Plant were minimal, former workers
say.

MIDDLETOWN (AP) - Safety measures at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant were
minimal or nonexistent, former workers say.

As many as 40,000 southeast Iowans and residents from nearby states handled
hazardous materials to produce weapons for soldiers that helped defeat
Hitler and win the Cold War.

Producing the weapons caused some workers to turn yellow from exposure to
the hazardous materials. Many workers handled radioactive substances with
bare hands and breathed in deadly fumes and powders, unprotected by masks.

Other workers on Line 1, where they produced atomic weapons, were said to
have developed a death walk - a gait called the ""Line 1 shuffle.'' They
were bent and sickly looking.

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