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Former Mallinckrodt Workers Nearing Payment

St. Louis Public Radio
Published March 15, 2005 at 8:56 a.m. CST
Attendees of a hearing in February over the case of former Mallinckrodt workers. (UPI photo/Bill Greenblatt)
Attendees of a hearing in February over the case of former Mallinckrodt workers. (UPI photo/Bill Greenblatt)

By Kevin Lavery, KWMU

St. Louis, MO –

Hundreds of people who worked on the U.S. atomic weapons program in St. Louis might soon receive the compensation they've spent years lobbying for.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the Mallinckrodt Company operated a uranium processing facility near downtown St. Louis. Scores of workers developed radiation-related cancers. Many of them died.

Now, as KWMU's Kevin Lavery reports, many former workers hope their compensation - and an apology - is finally at hand.

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