DENVER—The U.S. Department of Labor is visiting western Colorado to help former employees of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s Grand Junction Operations Office file for benefits.
Federal law allows nuclear weapons industry workers who became ill from their work to file claims.
The department says already 66 people who worked at the Grand Junction office have received more than $8.3 million in compensation and medical benefits. This spring, people who worked there for at least 250 days from March 23, 1943, through Jan. 31, 1975, were added to a list of cancer sufferers who don’t have to prove their illnesses were caused by on-the-job radiation exposure before receiving compensation.
Department staffers are scheduled to be in Grand Junction on Tuesday to help eligible claimants.
