HHS to Evaluate Petition for Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program

Summary

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced its decision to evaluate a petition to include a class of employees from Hooker Electrochemical Corporation in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, which covers workers who worked at the facility in Niagara Falls, New York, between 1943 and 1976.