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Hudson Hospital CT Operators Sue over Radiation Exposure
The hospital is not a defendant in the employees' lawsuit.
Four workers who operate the CT scan machine at Hudson Hospital have filed suit against the building's architects and builders, according to news reports.
They claim the control room construction was a weak shield, exposing them to excessive radiation when they performed CT scans, WCCO-TV reported:
“Potentially it is an extremely, extremely serious situation,” [plaintiffs' attorney Chuck] Bye said. “The law in Wisconsin requires the viewing window to have the same radiation protection as the walls and this was not the case.”
A window separates the scanner room from the control room where the technologist sits in a CT area. It’s supposed to be made of lead-shielded glass, but when the hospital went to replace its CT scanner last year, it discovered it was made from only regular glass.
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Bye told Forum News Service the hospital isn't named in the suit:
“It was corrected as soon as it was discovered,” Bye said. “Hudson Hospital has been cooperative, and there is no claim that they did anything wrong.”
The defendants named in the civil lawsuit are Mortenson Construction of Minneapolis; Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, a Minneapolis architectural and design firm; and Hammes Co. of Brookfield, the company that oversaw and managed construction of the facility.
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