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The Worker’s Compensation Act

January 20, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Madera Mercury > 12 January 1917 The State Accident Commission will present recommendations for changes in the workmen’s compensation act. … One of the bitter fights probably will be in an attempt on the part of the anti-administration forces to cripple the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The insurance feature is the particular target against which most … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: 1917, Accident, California, Compensation, industrial accident, insurance, labor, State Accident Commission, Worker's Compensation Act

Accident at Nuclear Plant Spawns a Medical Mystery

December 21, 2015 by sergneri

From the LA Times Accident at Nuclear Plant Spawns a Medical Mystery : Health: Questions are being raised about the effects of radiation exposures. Scientific answers are lacking. LINDA ROACH MONROE | TIMES STAFF WRITER | 09/10/1990 RICHLAND, Wash. — On that Saturday morning in 1962, the men whose bodies formed the radiological front lines … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, History, Nuclear Industry, Science, the Anthropocene Tagged: 1962, 1976, 1990, Accident, blue flash, Cerenkov radiation, Hanford, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Nuclear, radiation, The Atomic Man

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