448183OHCOW Sudbury, Sudbury, ON, Canada.
New Solut. 2022 May;32(1):48-56. doi: 10.1177/10482911221079056. Epub 2022 Feb 9.
Northern Ontario gold and uranium miners represent the largest cohort of industrial laborers who were historically exposed to daily nonconsensual industrial medical treatments involving the inhalation of finely ground aluminum dust known as McIntyre Powder. The daughter of one of those miners founded the McIntyre Powder Project in 2015 to document health issues in exposed miners, in an effort to determine whether her father's Parkinson's was related to aluminum inhalation. In response, 553 miners registered with the McIntyre Powder Project between 2015 and 2021 either directly or by their next-of-kin. This paper compiles their lived experiences of being subjected to McIntyre Powder, which contrasts starkly with the official narrative of the northern Ontario mining industry, which licensed its use globally. Additionally, this paper illuminates concerning industrial practices that emerged from the miners' disclosures, involving incentivized claims suppression, and raising serious questions about the effectiveness of medical screening and regulatory enforcement.
安大略省北部的金矿和铀矿工人是最大的产业工人群体之一，他们曾在历史上长期暴露于每天非自愿的工业医疗处理中，包括吸入被称为 McIntyre 粉末的精细铝尘。其中一位矿工的女儿于 2015 年创立了 McIntyre 粉末项目，旨在记录接触过这种粉末的矿工的健康问题，以确定她父亲的帕金森症是否与铝吸入有关。作为回应，2015 年至 2021 年间，553 名矿工通过直接或通过近亲与 McIntyre 粉末项目进行了注册。本文汇编了他们在被强制接受 McIntyre 粉末治疗方面的亲身经历，这与安大略省北部矿业行业的官方说法形成鲜明对比，该行业曾在全球范围内许可使用这种粉末。此外，本文还揭示了矿工披露的一些令人担忧的工业做法，包括激励性的索赔压制，这对医疗筛查和监管执法的有效性提出了严重质疑。
