acute beryllium disease

According to the most recent Department of Labor statistics, since June 2001 $253,920,500 has been paid in Part B compensation, which provides compensation for workers, or their survivors, with radiation-induced cancers, beryllium disease, or silicosis. Over $173,000,000 has been paid in Part E ...

One prominent element regulated at the federal level is beryllium, which in too-large quantities can cause adverse health effects such as acute beryllium disease and lung cancer. Foundry workers, furnace tenders, machine operators, metal fabricators and even dental technicians could face these too-large ...

Since it started overseeing the Hanford worker compensation program in 2008, Penser North America has denied chronic beryllium disease claims in near ... A declassified report by a Hanford expert in 1953 detailed that even when “exposures have been low” it's led to “acute poisoning” and “fatalities.

For many years, authorities largely ignored the problem, characterizing workers' illnesses as the result of accidents or acute exposures even though some ... "We know there are many dozens of workers who get sick every year from chronic beryllium disease," outgoing OSHA head David Michaels said in an ...

According to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), “Beryllium-exposed workers may … develop … adverse health effects such as acute beryllium disease and lung cancer,” among other issues. However, OSHA “enforces permissible exposure limits (PELs) for beryllium to protect ...

In his final report, Cardarelli concluded that “under certain conditions an acute exposure to neutron radiation can occur” at Portsmouth, creating a potential .... in coincidence,” said Lisa Parker, who was a guard for part of her 19 years at Portsmouth and received compensation for chronic beryllium disease, ...

And if you grab a big handful of quartz dust and go all Scarface on that pile, you can cause acute silicosis whereupon your lungs will fill with fluid and you ... once a precursor for many ceramic materials, until people figured out that inhaling Beryllium dust caused berylliosis—aka chronic beryllium disease.

It was discovered in the 1930s and 1940s that workers inhaling dust containing the metal can become lodged in the lungs leading to the debilitating and ultimately lethal chronic beryllium disease, berylliosis. While acute problems with beryllium have been eradicated by improved industrial hygiene the ...

Short-term exposure causes acute beryllium disease, which causes skin irritation and inflammation of the eyes, nose, throat and lungs. Long-term exposure, even in minute amounts, can result in chronic beryllium disease, mainly affecting the lungs. CBD may take anywhere from 10 to 25 years after ...