Beryllium workers at Tallevast - Opinion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Unhealthy limits Beryllium workers need more information and aid
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (FL)
August 3, 2004

Federal officials need to undertake a far more aggressive effort to 
provide medical benefits and compensation to former workers at the 
American Beryllium Co. in Tallevast.

This week, representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor will be in 
Bradenton to offer information about federal assistance available to 
former employees of the plant, its contractors and subcontractors.

The plant operated from 1961 to 1996 in Tallevast, a community near U.S. 
301 in south Manatee County, near the Sarasota line. It used beryllium, 
a toxic, coal-like metal, to produce parts for nuclear warheads and 
military aircraft, among other things.

The neighborhood has been in the news lately because of extensive 
chemical contamination found on and near the plant site, which was 
purchased and closed by the defense contractor Lockheed Martin in 1996.

But too little attention has been paid, so far, to another crisis -- the 
deteriorating health of workers exposed to beryllium dust at the plant.

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for the entire editorial
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040803/OPINION/408030652/1030

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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