chronic beryllium disease

U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell signed off on an order Monday granting Charles Stone another shot at obtaining a lump-sum payment of $150,000 and coverage of medical expenses related to the chronic beryllium disease he said he developed while working at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...

OSHA estimates that 62,000 workers are exposed to beryllium, including 11,500 in the construction and shipyard industries. The agency has projected that the updated PEL and STELs will save 90 lives from beryllium-related disease and prevent 46 new cases of chronic beryllium disease each year.

In it's February report, the DOE's Inspector General's office found some federal guidelines outlined in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program were not followed, putting lab workers at risk. “The IG report cited record-keeping issues dating back a year, and not ...

The report found long-standing issues in the lab's record keeping surrounding the Department of Energy's Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program. The lab did not keep an adequate inventory of the amount of beryllium on-site and could not assure contaminated areas were safe before allowing ...

Beryllium is a light metal used in materials research, defense systems and testing at LANL. In powdered form and airborne, it can be highly toxic and cause chronic beryllium disease, a debilitating and sometimes fatal lung ailment. About 20 years ago, beryllium exposure was among the health problems the ...

WTC-linked sarcoidosis also was shown to be a multisystem disease, whereas other exposure-related granulomatous diseases, such as chronic beryllium disease and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, are confined to the lungs, researchers said. Other symptoms were present in patients at follow-up, including ...

Long-term exposure can result in a serious lung-scarring ailment known as chronic beryllium disease. Over the years, beryllium has been on the radar at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. That's because the yard had used coal slag, a gritty substance that contained ...

The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program can provide compensation of up to $400,000 to people diagnosed with a radiogenic cancer, chronic beryllium disease, beryllium sensitivity, or chronic silicosis as a result of exposure to dangerous materials at their workplace. To date, the ...

Among the diseases that the chemicals and mutagens cause nasopharyngeal cancer, leukaemia, tumours liver, lung, bladder, kidney and skin cancer, chronic beryllium disease, allergies or asthma, beryllium respiratory sensitisation, skin sensitisation, cardiovascular, renal, hepatic and haematological ...