Executive Summary. Recent legislation authorized the Department of General Services (DGS) to sell and then lease back 11 stateâowned office properties. The saleâleaseback is designed to free up the stateâs equity in the buildings to provide oneâtime revenue for addressing the stateâs current budgetary shortfall.
Our Virginia railroad injury / disease law firm has been representing railroad workers ( transport workers such as engineers , switchman , conductors ) who claim various health illnesses including cancer as a result of being exposed to radioactive substances moved by railroads in and out of a nuclear weapons and uranium enrichment nuclear plants / ...
1 Lung Cancer-If the risk to uranium miners was the same as the risk to the general public, we would have expected 64 deaths from lung cancer. 2  Instead we found 371. 3  This was nearly 6 times more deaths than expected. 4  The longer a white miner was exposed to radon gas, the greater the risk of lung cancer.ranium Miners were exposed to mining dust, thought to cause lung disease. NIOSH made the study to find if uranium miners have an increased risk for lung cancer and other lung disease when compared to the U.S. general public.