[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, REUSE: Workers' claims at former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

‘It’s a time bomb’: Workers joust with UCSF over claims they were exposed to toxic waste from former shipyard

By Chris Roberts
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
July 15, 2024

A half-dozen current and former workers at a UCSF lab-animal colony in Hunters Point that sits next to the heavily polluted former U.S. Navy shipyard have said in workers’ compensation claims that they were exposed to “radiation and other hazards” that triggered lung problems, hypertension and other health complications.

The claims, filed in 2020 but only now made public, represent the latest chapter in a long-running controversy over the cleanup of the Superfund waste site, the health of people who have lived or worked nearby, and San Francisco’s effort to turn the radioactive former shipyard and and atomic-bomb research site into a waterfront neighborhood.

Two of the six workers have settled their injury cases with payouts of $20,000 and $12,500, while the other cases are pending, records show. The claimants who settled did not respond to requests for comment.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/shipyard-ucsf-radiation-19566083.php

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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