A few more Flats workers covered
A federal advisory panel granted expedited financial help to a few former Rocky Flats workers, but rejected a petition that would have speeded compensation for many more.
On an 81 vote, with an abstention, the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health backed expedited status for workers who may have been exposed to neutron radiation while working at the former munitions plant from 1959 and http://www.dolphinsofficialnflstore.com 1966.
The board, on a 64 vote, declined to recommend immediate compensation for all other workers, who may have been made ill by an exposure to radiation at the plant that made atomic bomb components.
The board's recommendations now go to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The two days of presentations before the board were both filled with emotion and weighed down by scientific minutiae.
The board was asked to rule on whether the government has enough information to decide individual worker's radiation exposure.
That was the only question the board was entitled to answer Tuesday, said board member Wanda Munn.
"And we've Cameron Wake Authentic Jersey heard no information that there isn't enough information," Munn said.
Board member Michael Gibson said he felt the board's scope went beyond that.
"To do our duty correctly we need to consider the experiences of people who were there," he said.
Dozens of those workers and their families, who filled the meeting room at the Denver West Sheraton Tuesday agreed with Gibson.
"You've listened to a whole lot of people who have pedigrees, but they weren't on the shop floor," Jerry Harden, a Cameron Wake Black Jersey former worker and union leader at the munitions plant, told the board. "Please help the sick Rocky Flats workers."
When the meeting ended, some workers and their families cried, some walked off in http://www.dolphinsofficialnflstore.com/51-mike-pouncey-jersey-authentic-black-limited-cheap.html anger, and most, like Mary Ann Rupp, whose husband died of lung cancer in 1995, vowed to continue fighting to get compensation soon.
"We're not giving up," Rupp said.
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