The Hawk's Nest Incident: America`s Worst Industrial Disaster

by Mr. Martin Cherniack M. D.

Paperback, 1989

Description

The worst occupational health disaster in American history occurred in the 1930s when hundreds of men died and over a thousand fell ill from acute silicosis contracted during the building of Union Carbide's Hawk's Nest Tunnel through Gauley Mountain in West Virginia.

Status

Available

Call number

363.1

Publication

Yale University Press (1989), 204 pages

Awards

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

0300044852 / 9780300044850
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