The US Radium Corp is a radium processing plant located in Orange, New Jersey.
The US Radium Corp was known for making luminescent paint and watches.
This project was watched over two men Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sochocky and Dr. George S.Willis.
This plant was big during WWI because the demand for watches was high.
Within the watches the numbers where drawn on with radium paint.
The plant hired many women to work on the watches but after awhile the girls were getting sick and dying.
The two doctors found out that it was the radium that were getting the women sick.
The illnesses ranged from a coma to radium jaw.
Radium jaw is when radium is literally eroding the bones in your body.
After a while the Corp had to shut down because there was a lack of workers.
After years of cleaning of the site, the city of Orange made the corp into a park for kids to play and relax.
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