Way to Die #196 : Radium Girls, is the fourth death featured in "Cure for the Common Death, Part I", which aired on March 22, 2009.
This is one of the Radium Girls, before she and her radium friends died from radiation poisoning with the glow-in-the-dark paint.
Plot
On January 5, 1920, in Orange, NJ. In the 1920s, a group of women who work at a factory that uses paint containing radium to create fluorescent watch faces notice that the paint also glows when applied to their skin. They eventually expose themselves to huge amounts of radiation after repeated applications (mostly using the radioactive paint as glow-in-the-dark body paint for their lovers during sex). While most of them died from bone cancer, the survivors filed one of the first successful workers' rights lawsuits against the company and won, leading to increased safety standards in American workplaces.
"Overcoming years of denial and foul-play, the Radium Girls lead to higher safety standards across America."
Trivia
- Based on a real story about Radium Girls from the 1917-26.
JamesTherHAMPMaster 19:15, November 28, 2012 (UTC)