Hard Metal Disease
Overview
Examines "hard metals disease," cobalt poisoning among workers in the tungsten carbide machine tool industry. Alpert focuses on workers suffering from this debilitating, incurable lung disease who were exposed to cobalt dust at three plants of the Valenite Metals Corporation. Establishing a close rapport with the workers as they tell their own stories of Valenite's negligence and subsequent cover-up, Alpert departs from standard television reportage in his powerful and unapologetic indictment of industry.
About Hard Metal Disease (1984)
Released in 1984, Hard Metal Disease is a documentary film from Downtown Community Television Center (United States of America). It was directed by Jon Alpert. With a runtime of 28m, the film is available in full HD.
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