In May 1927, Grace Fryer and four other former painters — Edna Huesmann, Katherine Schaub, Quinta McDonald, and Albina Larice — filed suit against U.S. Radium, asking for $125,000 in damages.
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By 1925, the wall of corporate denial was cracking. A statistician at Prudential Insurance began documenting the alarming cluster of jaw infections and deaths among dial painter policyholders. County medical examiner Dr. Harrison Martland detected gamma rays emanating from living dial painters and measured radon being exhaled from their lungs — proof that radium had been absorbed into their bodies [1] — Alaina Urquhart "US Radium filed fake positive safety report: U.S. Radium hired a Harvard-trained physiologist in 1924 whose findings were severely negative…" 1:02:23 . He set about proving, relentlessly, that the company's paint had caused their suffering. U.S. Radium responded by forging a fake positive safety report under the name of a Harvard-trained physiologist they'd hired — whose actual findings were devastatingly negative — and submitting it to the New Jersey Department of Labor[2]. Martland was undeterred. He got the coroner's jury system abolished to allow credible expert testimony. The evidence was becoming impossible to suppress. In 1925, a woman who had never worked with radium but shared a bed with her dial-painter sister died from radiation exposure — proof of how far the contamination had spread.
In 1927, Grace Fryer and four other dying Radium Girls filed a landmark lawsuit against U.S. Radium for $125,000 — after two years of searching for a lawyer willing to take the case. By the time of the hearing, none of the five could raise their arms to take an oath. The company's lawyers responded by asking for a delay because their witnesses were on vacation in Europe.
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