How a Forced Bad Habit Destroyed a Woman's Jaw

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When Mae Keane was let go from her prestigious job at a factory, painting watch dials with glow in the dark paint, she never imagined she would want to thank her boss years later. For in just a few years, the watch dial painters fell ill by the dozens, impaired by all manner of vicious diseases. Their teeth fell out, their jaws came unhinged, their legs snapped under their own weight, and even their spines crumbled. Out of those top female workers now laid bodies, "still glowing in their coffins". This is how a company legally took the lives of their own staff and escaped full responsibility: The story of the Radium Girls.

Sources:
[The Radium Girls]
Kate Moore: The Radium Girls https://www.kate-moore.com/the-radium-girls
https://www.buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoore/the-light-that-does-not-lie
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/unbelievable-true-story-of-the-radium-girls/IJAPT6KAUH55WNE5OMXVHGEXII/
https://delanirbartlette.medium.com/still-glowing-in-their-coffins-the-radium-girls-e4f5a5cd4284
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/03/radium-girls-living-dead-women/
https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/
https://americanhistory.si.edu/girlhood/work/radium-girls

[Mae Keane]
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/373510029

[Marie Curie & Pierre Curie]
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium/

[Undark & The United States Radium Company]
https://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_19_Mar_Radium_girls.pdf
https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0200772#bkground

[Radium]
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/

[Workplace Hazards and Occupational Safety | The Radium Girl Lawsuit]
https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplace
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/centennial-radium-forged-report/
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html
https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/06/five-women-caled-radium-girls-improved-factory-working-conditions/
https://interestingengineering.com/the-radium-girls-workers-who-painted-with-radium-and-suffered-radiation-exposure

[Other Sources]
https://pastebin.com/nGvDfFx6

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