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RSS FeedsHopes dashed for former GE Peterborough workers after review of cancer claims
(The Star Health)

 
 

19 august 2018 08:19:29

 
Hopes dashed for former GE Peterborough workers after review of cancer claims
(The Star Health)
 


Former employees of General Electric Peterborough say they are disappointed in the results of a workers’ compensation board review of denied cancer claims, arguing sweeping changes are necessary to how the board treats victims of occupational disease. The review was initiated last year after a Star investigation detailed decades of toxic exposures at one of Canada’s oldest and largest industrial operations between 1940 and 1980, as well as the workers’ struggle to receive compensation. The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board has now revisited 233 previously denied claims for a range of chronic and sometimes terminal illnesses and has overturned 71 of its decisions. In 105 cases, the board upheld its original decision. Four cases were abandoned by workers or their families; in an additional 53 previously abandoned claims, the board tried to find next of kin who may wish to revive the claim. They were able to contact eight families. Armando Fatigati, the WSIB’s vice president of complex claims, said the review reflected “the most updated scientific research and all the available evidence.”“Peterborough families were looking for answers and closure. People brought forward new information and wanted to know that all of the evidence and latest scientific research was considered,” he said.Sue James, who worked at GE for 30 years alongside her father, Gord, who later died of cancer, said she believes the board still fails to accurately recognize and compensate occupational illnesses. “Our whole feeling is that all these years we’ve been fighting it has been a sham and a hoax,” she said. “When you see these final results you think, you haven’t even hit the tip of the iceberg.”GE Peterborough workers, who built everything from household appliances to diesel locomotive engines and fuel cells for nuclear reactors, were exposed to more than 3,000 toxic chemicals, including at least 40 known ...


 
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