Daughter Fights for Ailing Nuke Workers By CHERYL WITTENAUER, AP
A 3-year-old federal law requires the government to compensate workers in the nuclear weapons industry, or their survivors, for job-related cancer or other diseases. Workers from about 350 sites nationwide may qualify.
Ten sites are in Missouri, including the old Mallinckrodt Chemical Co. plant in St. Louis where Brock's father, Christopher Davis, worked from 1945 to 1960. The plant produced uranium dioxide for the Manhattan Project, exposing its workers to large doses of radiation.
Fallen bridge worker's mom: OSHA fine not enough
By REID MAGNEY / La Crosse Tribune
'What's bad is that my son was so proud to have that job, and less than three weeks later he was dead,' she said.