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59 Ky. L.J. 114 (1970-1971)
Occupational Safety and Health: Environmental Justice for the Forgotten American

handle is hein.journals/kentlj59 and id is 126 raw text is: Occupational Safety and Health: Environmental Justice for the Forgotten American By JOSEPH A. PAGE* AND GARY B. S u.s°* For the agony of the crushed arm, for the torment of the scorched body, for the delirium of terror in the fall through endless hollow squares of steel beams down to the death- delaying construction planks of the rising skyscraper, for the thirst in the night in the hospital, for the sinking qualms of the march to the operating table, for the perpetual ghostly consciousness of the missing limb-for these things and for the whole hideous host of things like them, fol- lowing upon the half million accidents that happen to American working men every year, there can be no compen- sation.' And, well, my father worked in a chemical plant right next door to the one I work for; about twenty years. He's dead now. I had an uncle; he also worked in a chemical plant, the same plant right next door to me. He died of cancer, this cancer in the throat. He had a tube in his throat, and it was as a result of working in this chemical plant; he didn't have it before he went there. But a certain chemical that he inhaled, got in his throat and his throat was a mess and he died. I mean, I don't use the expression-he died like a dog ...... We're a small bunch but we've got a problem. These chemicals are going to kill us all.2 * Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center. ** Counsel, Center for the Study of Responsive Law; Consultant to Rep. Philip Burton of California. I Hard, The Law of the Killed and Wounded, EvEmanoDY's MAGAzIN, Sept. 1908, at 361. 2 Harold Smith, Local 8-447, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Int'l Union, quoted in Hazards of the Industrial Environment, transcript of a conference spon- sored by District 8 Council, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Intl Union, Kenilworth, N.J., March 29, 1969, at 58-59; reprinted in Hearings on H.R. 843, H.R. 8809, H.R. 4294, H.R. 18373, Before the Select Subcomm. on Labor of the House Comm. on Education and Labor, 91st Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 2, at 1293-3 (1969).

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