Building Trades National Medical Screening Program

Targets Workers at Fourteen Department of Energy (DOE) Sites

 

The Center to Protect Workers’ Rights (CPWR) has expanded the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program to include 14 DOE sites.  The Program offers a free medical screening exam to construction workers that worked (at any time) on a covered DOE site.  The goal of the program is to identify possible work related illnesses – silicosis, beryllium disease, and some cancers – related to work at the sites.

 

A free medical screening is offered to construction workers who worked at any of the below listed DOE sites.  It’s that simple, if you worked at a covered site, you can sign up.  There exam is free-there is no cost to the workers.

 

 

-         Amchitka, Alaska

-         Hanford, Washington

-         Savannah River Site, South Carolina

-         Oak Ridge, Tennessee

-         Fernald, Ohio

-         Mound, Ohio

-         Kansas City Plant, Missouri

-         Pinellas Plant, Florida

-         Portsmouth, Ohio

-         Paducah, Kentucky

-         Ineel, Idaho

-         Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York

-         Mallinckrodt, Missouri

-         Weldon Springs, Missouri

 

CPWR is the research development and training arm of the National Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO.  Together with state and local building trade’s councils in these areas, the Building and Construction Trades Department has been pushing to establish these screening programs for construction workers throughout DOE’s nuclear weapons complex.  Grants from DOE pay for these programs.  The program will serve approximately 3300 workers a year.

 

CPWR, in partnership with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Duke Medical Center and Zenith Administrators, Seattle, will be working with state and local Building Trades Councils to arrange the screenings.  For more information or if you worked at any of the DOE sites listed above and would like to participate in the free screening program, call 1800-866-9663 or visit the website at bemed.org.  Or Carpenters can e-mail Council Representative Anthony Macagnone @ amacagnone@empirestatecarpenters.org.