Radium luminous paint8/31/2023 ![]() The powder was poured from the vial into a small porcelain crucible, about the size of a thimble. This compound was contained in a small vial about an inch and one-half long and about the size of an ordinary lead pencil in diameter. The material was a powder, of about the consistency of cosmetic powder, and consisted of phosphorescent zinc sulphide mixed with radium sulphate. ![]() Each girl procured a tray containing twenty-four watch dials and the material to be used to paint the numerals upon them so that they would appear luminous. Each girl worked a few feet away from the girl next to her and a few feet away from the girl at the opposite side of the table. They worked at four rows of tables extending practically the length of the room. The windows were regulated by any of the girls who saw fit to do so. The decedent was one of eighty girls who worked for five and one-half days per week in a large factory room ventilated by a skylight and by windows around the room. While the decedent was in the employ of the defendant, no precautions were taken to prevent dial painters from being exposed to the small quantity of radium sulphate, an insoluble salt, and the radium emanation present in the air of their workrooms. The decedent was employed to paint the dials of inexpensive watches with a luminous paint containing small quantities of the element radium in the form of a sulphate. La Porte, the plaintiff's intestate, was employed by the defendant, the United States Radium Corporation, from May 14, 1917, to December 11, 1918, and for a brief period of not over six weeks in 1920. ![]() The principal question in this suit is whether or not the plaintiff, in an action at law for damages caused by injuries to the plaintiff's intestate and her subsequent death, is entitled to an injunction restraining the defendant from pleading the statute of limitations as a bar to the plaintiff's alleged cause of action at law on the ground of equitable fraud. J., of counsel), for plaintiff.Ĭollins & Corbin (by Edward Markley) and Edwards, Smith & Dawson (by Edwin F.
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