―― Harmful Inaction ――
Worker Injuries
Dial-painters working in a factory (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
With no action from the USDL, countless more dial-painters contracted radium-induced anemia and necrosis.
Grace Fryer reflects on her deteriorating health from dial-painting.
“Radium eats the bone as steadily and surely as fire burns wood”
(Moore, Kate H)
“I have had 19 operations… but my doctors tell me there is no hope”
(The Courier-News)
(Grace Fryer. 3 June 1928)
Assortment of images depicting necrosis in Radium Girls
Mollie Maggia Removed Jawbone
(American Weekly)
(Removed Lower Jaw of a Deceased Radium Girl)
(Collection of Ross Mullner)
(A Dial Painter with Radium-Induced Cancer of the Knee)