Radium Dial Company


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A company whose workers painted clock faces—in the 1920s, long before the link between radiation and cancer was understood—with luminescent radium paint that was linked to radiation-induced occupational disease
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Hundreds of immigrant women worked for the Radium Dial Company where they painted these dials with highly radioactive radium.
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