Alaina Urquhart
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When his report to management contained incredibly profoundly negative results and dire, dire warnings, the company just issued a fake positive report under the consultant's name.
And they submitted that to the New Jersey Department of Labor.
Under that consultant's name, they just lied and said that he said it was positive.
radium's vast efforts to cover up the dangers posed by radium in their plants, the consequences were becoming undeniable.
Like, they're not going to be able to cover this up forever.
They're literally disintegrating.
In 1925, a statistician with the Prudential Insurance Company started documenting the numerous illnesses reported by employees with the company, including the many jaw and teeth infections reported in two dead and 12 living painters.
A short time later, the county medical examiner, Dr. Harrison Martland, documented his, quote, detection of gamma rays from living dial painters and the exhalation of radon from their lungs.
He took it upon himself, actually, Dr. Martland, he took it upon himself to help prove that these young women were being poisoned by radium in the paint that they were working with and that it was the cause of their suffering and eventual deaths.
Dr. Martlin was able to show that radium outside of the body is enough to burn, obviously, like we've seen, and cause harm.