Growing up in New York City, the younger Marion lived with her parents and two sisters. Her mother, Marion Dunlop, was a housewife from Scotland. O’Hara, had immigrated to the United States from Liverpool and found work in New York City as a janitor. Sherri Becker, RN, DNP is a nursing instructor at Gwynedd Mercy University, Gwynedd Valley, Pa.On February 27, 1905, Marion Murdoch O’Hara was born in New York City, the daughter of two immigrants.
GLOWING RADIUM JAW FULL
These vibrant young women were robbed of full lives, but they did not die in vain. Their determination made a significant contribution to industrial safety standards, and their legacy lives on in the establishment, decades later, of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Grace Fryer and her fellow radium girls fought for justice. This prompted me to read the book Radium Girls by Kate Moore. Gregory's play performed by Shakesperience Productions in Waterbury. I learned about the radium girls through D.W. Of those who survived, many endured disabling pain throughout their lives. It is unknown how many other women died from radium poisoning.
More than 50 of those women died as a direct result of radium paint poisoning that destroyed their bones. USRC had two additional locations, in Waterbury, Conn., and Ottawa, Ill., where young women suffered the effects from radium. Grace, Amelia, and about 70 other women in Essex County, N.J., were known as the Radium Girls because of the paint that they so diligently placed between their lips. Grace's death certificate reads, "radium sarcoma, industrial poisoning."
It wasn't until 1938 that the owners of the factories were found responsible for the deaths of the young women. By the time the case came to trial, the young women were so debilitated, they could barely take the witness stand. The factory refused to accept responsibility. It took them two years to find a lawyer (Raymond Berry) willing to take the case. Grace and her co-workers wanted USRC held accountable. It is notable that Grace's previous care providers had been on the USRC payroll. Three years after Grace's health issues began, a doctor suggested that her jaw problems may have had something to do with her former dial painting job at U.S. But the words on her death certificate reflected Grace's determination to uncover the truth. While a dental evaluation revealed a decaying jaw, two doctors told her that she was in fine health. Her jaw became swollen, inflamed, and full of pus. Like her friend, she developed agonizing tooth loss. One year after Mollie's death, Grace, by then a bank teller, began experiencing back and foot pain. Mollie's body was later exhumed and the true cause of her death revealed. Grace refused to believe the coroner's report about her friend's death. Side by side, in support of the World War I effort, the two young women painted glow-in-the-dark numbers on watch dials, touching the paintbrush tip to their lips to keep a precise point.
In 1917, Grace and Mollie had been co-workers and friends. The coroner declared her cause of death was syphilis.Īlong with her parents and sisters, Mollie was also mourned by a young woman named Grace Fryer. Despite many visits to dentists and doctors, Mollie's disease progressed to include extreme fatigue and debilitating joint pain. Eventually her jaw bone began to deteriorate and had to be removed. So she doubled down on her regimen of oral care and proper nutrition. Yet for no reason she could see, she was suddenly plagued by dental pain, mouth sores and, then, tooth loss. Amelia "Mollie" Maggia was just in her early 20s, and never before had dental problems.
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