[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, RADIATION: Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (OH) workers

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Families Fight Piketon Plant Benefits Ruling

By TERRY KINNEY
Associated Press Writer
Portsmouth Daily Times (OH)
June 6, 2009

PIKETON - Relatives of workers who died of exposure to radiation or 
toxic materials at a Cold War-era uranium enrichment plant in Ohio are 
fighting a ruling by state officials that keeps them from receiving 
workers' compensation death benefits.

They say they should not be penalized for missing a deadline for filing 
claims because the government withheld information for years and workers 
did not know they were working in a life-threatening environment.

'There isn't any amount of money on this earth that could replace what 
we lost,' said Anna Fleshman, 77, of Chillicothe.

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For the entire article, see
http://portsmouth-dailytimes.com/bookmark/2674362

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Lenny Siegel
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