A week ago, Sen. Claire McCaskill's Westport office received a visit from Maurice Copeland and Ivory Mae Thomas, retired employees of the Honeywell-operated Kansas City Plant, along with representatives from PeaceWorks KC and Physicians for Social Responsibility.
"We also asked that the Plant be completely cleaned up and noted that
this year the KC Plant received no funds for this, whereas other sites
received millions in stimulus money for cleanup this year," writes Ann
Suellentrop of the Physicians for Social Responsibility in an e-mail to The Pitch. "For example, Los Alamos received $210 million, not to mention the jobs created."
Suellentrop says that her group has already met with Kansas Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, who both indicated that they are also interested in helping the Kansas City plant's former workers.
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My father, Sheridan Phillips, was a telemetry technician at Bendix and Allied Signal and finally Honeywell. He worked there several years before he eventually retired. I remember him saying he worked in the basement of the plant. He passed away two years ago from brain cancer. I have contacted the EEOIC and they have sent me information in return. Unfortunately, they keep requesting information that I could not possibly have access to, like specific toxic chemicals my father was exposed to. They want me to prove a correlation between his cancer and specific chemical and/or biological occupational exposure agents. Everything was so hush hush. I do know my father helped clean up an accident site with another employee and they were required to wear special suits. He had to dip items from the site into a special cleaning solution to rid the items of some contaminant. I do not know how many other people at the plant have developed brain cancers. I am trying to find this information out so maybe my mother (who is still living) can have a little better financial future. Please feel free to contact me if you and I can assist one another. Thanks so much!!
And this is in spite of the fact that I�m happy when people who comment on my blog say something like �thanks for posting this.�
I STARTED WORK AT THE KANSAS CITY PlANT IN 1977, IT WAS KNOWN AS THE BENDIX CORPORATION BACK THEN. I WORK THERE UNTIL 1993, AS A SUPERVISOR IN MEHANICAL INSPECTION, AND PRODUCTION CONTROL. AS SUPERVISOR ON THE PRODUCTION/INSPECTION FLOOR I WAS EXPOSED TO ALL TYPES OF MACHINED
METALS. ADDITIONAL MY SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED THE PAINT DEPARTMENT, WHERE I WAS EXPOSED TO TRICHLOROETHANE, AND MANY OTHER CHEMICALS RELATED TO PAINT QUALITY. MY SHIFT RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED THE X-RAY DEPT, WHERE TWO LARGE X-RAY MACHINES WAS BEING USED TO DETERMINE PARTS COMPLIANCE TO SPECIFICATIONS. MY EMPLOYEES AND I HAD TO WEAR THOSE X-RAY EXPOSURE BADGES ON OUR
PERSON WHILE IN THE DEPT WORKING. I AM MAKING THESE COMMENTS IN A SUPPORT EFFORT, BECAUSE, HAVEING BEEN RECENTLY DIAGNOISED BY MY FAMILY DOCTOR AS HAVING (COPD)CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE. IF ANYONE WISH TO CONTACT MY #816-523-0682.
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