Factory workers killed by watch paint 🖌️🖌️

During World War I, the USA wanted to produce wristwatches that glow in the dark for soldiers. Wristwatches would be painted with radium, a radioactive element, to make them glow in the dark. Many women were hired for this job, which required careful work. Since radium had just been discovered at that time, its harmful effects were not fully known. While women were painting watches with radium, they were constantly exposed to this deadly substance. After the work, the women's clothes and even their skin began to shine. That's why they were called 'ghost girls'. After a while, diseases began to occur in women. These diseases, which doctors could not fully diagnose, always ended in death. After a few tests, it was understood that radium was causing this condition. Unfortunately, the workers paid for this uncertainty with their lives.

[@nelsonduffy9520]

Most of them got mouth cancers because they used to lick the paint brushes with the radium still on the paint brush then apply the paint to the indices of the watches

[@gyaniadmi2347]

How many people have sacrificed their lives

[@Acompony]

The USA failed these women

[@Kali_3dits]

No, no, no, the greedy businessmen and legal systems failed these women, seriously though, the CEOs and owners of the businesses usually went with no charges, it’s scary how little was done to them in return for the suffering they caused.

[@nhrbb19]

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