Toxic Substances | InjuryBoard Virginia Beach

Note: see also Mass Transit category. We have recently been retained on cases involving railroad workers who have developed cancer and other radiation related illness and disease as a result of exposure to radiation and radioactive substances while working for railroads that routinely transported cargo into and out of nuclear weapons facilities while working as railroad engineers, conductors or even as railroad track maintenance workers. In a number of areas of the country, nuclear weapon facilities required all kinds of uranium and radioactive material in order to build the often secret nuclear weapons. It is very common to have the primary source of transport of these materials and byproducts to be by railroad/train.

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