[CPEO-MEF] BERYLLIUM: Toxic dust at Livermore Labs (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Livermore Lab Workers May Be Exposed To Toxic Dust


Anna Werner
KPIX TV-5 News (San Francisco)
December 19, 2008

LIVERMORE (CBS 5) -

Officials with the Lawrence Livermore Lab are looking into a potential 
hidden danger: hundreds of workers have been possibly exposed to a toxic 
metal dust.

"It was hard," said Joyce Brooks, talking about the loss of her husband 
to beryllium poisoning. "I have anger," she said. Carl Brooks came 
straight from the Air Force to work at Livermore Labs in the 1950's. For 
the next 30 years, he machined parts out of the lightweight metal beryllium.

"The dust was very toxic," she said. "And they did not have much 
protection except a paper mask." Eventually it destroyed his lungs. Carl 
Brooks died in 2000.

"His life was taken because of his work, and his loyalty to the lab," 
she said.

...

For the entire story, see
http://cbs5.com/local/llnl.toxic.dust.2.890949.html

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Lenny Siegel
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