Knoxville Workplace Accident Lawyers
The Department of Energy Plants in East Tennessee have left a legacy of environmental contamination that continues to affect past and present workers at the Y-12 National Security Complex, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Environmental Management Program actively cleaning up the former K-25 site and other locations in the area. If you have suffered an illness or injury as a result of your work at these facilities, you are entitled to free medical care, 66 and two-thirds percent of your average weekly wages and other benefits from workers' compensation.
At the law office of Ralph Brown & Associates in Knoxville, Tennessee, our attorneys help injured workers receive all of the benefits they deserve under our state's workers' compensation laws. If you have been injured on the job or you think your illness may have been caused by past radiation exposure, contact with harmful substances such as beryllium, asbestos, or if you have developed cancer or blood disorders we offer a free initial consultation to evaluate your case and answer your questions.
Protecting Energy and Atomic Workers
The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, began operating in November 1943, as a part of the Manhattan Project to separate uranium-235 for Little Boy, the nuclear weapon that was dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II. The site was listed as a EPA Superfund site in the 1990s for groundwater and soil contamination. Today the plant is listed on the Department of Energy's Cleanup Criteria/Decision Document Database for environmental restoration, decontamination and decommissioning.
The K-25 site was completed in 1945 and was the first diffusion facility for large scale separation of uranium-235. The site was used for the production of enriched uranium for nuclear weapons and later included the production of uranium compatible for reactors used to generate electrical power. The site is currently being dismantled and demolished by the United States Department of Energy contracted with Bechtel Jacobs. The cleanup of the former K25 facility is known as the Environmental Management Program or EM.
The X-10 site, or more commonly the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a multi-program science and technology lab managed by UT-Battelle for the United States Department of Energy. The facility is DOE's largest science and energy laboratory and pursues research in neutron science, energy, high performance computing, systems biology, materials science, and national security.
Workers present at any of these sites or those involved in the EM project at the former K-25 site can suffer long-term health effects such as cancer as a result of exposure to radiation, beryllium and a variety of other hazardous substances. Even if your illness was caused by exposure that occurred many years in the past, you may be entitled to compensation for medical bills and other damages. State workers' compensation benefits can cover current and former employee's who suffer from occupational illnesses as well as injuries that occur in a work setting.
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If you or a loved one currently work at one of these facilities or worked at one of the sites in the past and believe you have developed cancer, a blood disorder, hearing loss, or any other occupational disease, please call the attorneys of Ralph Brown and Associates for a free consultation today.
