Alaina Urquhart

But not everyone was as enthusiastic about the job or the effects of working with the paint.

Okay.

According to Moore, some found the paint made them sick.

One woman even got sores on her mouth after just a month of working there.

And within a few years, even those who love their jobs, like Catherine Schaub, they started to notice that there were certain reactions that they were having trouble explaining.

After just a year in the studio, Catherine started getting really bad acne and went to go see a doctor.

And at first the doctor was like, oh, you know, puberty, you're 15.

So the doctor was like, you know, you're 15 years old.

It's probably puberty.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But then he ran some simple blood tests just to make sure everything was on the up and up.

And he noticed some pretty unusual changes that he'd seen in other factory workers.

And he said they were ones that had been exposed to high levels of phosphorus.

Okay.

And as far as Catherine knew, she didn't work with or even near any phosphorus.

So the anomalies in the blood were just kind of like, this is perplexing.

Neither Catherine nor any of the other girls knew it.

But they were working in very close proximity to phosphorus and it was beginning to affect them physically.

This was part of the whole thing.