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Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility.
Nov 13, 2009 · On November 13, 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood is killed in a car accident near Crescent, Oklahoma, north of Oklahoma City. Silkwood worked as a technician at a plutonium plant operated...
Nov 13, 2014 · Nov. 13, 1974: A plutonium plant worker and activist dies in a mysterious car crash on her way to expose the plant’s lax safety record.
Karen Silkwood (born February 19, 1946, Longview, Texas, U.S.—died November 13, 1974, near Crescent, Oklahoma) was an American laboratory technician and activist who attempted to expose the safety violations and negligence at Kerr-McGee’s Cimarron River nuclear facility.
Oct 29, 2018 · In the fall of 1974, 28-year-old Karen was in the middle of a union battle with Kerr-McGee over worker safety violations. When she found out she was contaminated with a lethal dose of plutonium...
Silkwood was a chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee's plutonium fuels production plant in Crescent, Oklahoma, and a member of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers'...
Feb 1, 2023 · Karen Silkwood's untimely death at the age of 28 has all the hallmarks of a tragic accident, but it's not unlikely that she was murdered to keep her silent.
Mar 14, 2024 · Barely 10 days after the plutonium contamination, when the activist was on her way to an interview with a reporter from The New York Times, carrying a folder with evidence that incriminated the...
Mar 31, 1975 · Karen Silkwood's fatal car crash on November 13, 1974, raised questions about the safe production of plutonium at the Kerr-McGee facility in Crescent, Oklahoma.
OCAW member and atomic worker Karen Silkwood was a union martyr. She died trying to protect the health, safety and security of her fellow workers and the community at large. She died nearly 40 years ago on Nov. 13, 1974, while en route to a meeting.
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