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Alameda Daily News

Copyright 2001 Don Roberts, all rights reserved 

Thursday, November 29, 2001


We previously reported that Marty Martinson, a former
Fire Lieutenant at Alameda's Naval Air Station, told
us that he and other firefighters were assigned to
work in Site 15 at the base and they did not discover
that the site contained hazardous toxics and chemicals
until years later when the base was being closed. We
also reported that we had obtained a copy of a
September 7, 1999 letter, in which Under Secretary of
the Navy Jerry Hultin admitted that the Navy violated
an Office of Safety and Health Administration
regulation at the Naval Air Station, Alameda, by not
providing all "information concerning the chemical,
physical, and toxicological properties of each
substance known or expected to be present on site . .
. "

Yesterday, Martinson sent us a copy of a letter dated
last month from the San Francisco Office of Worker's
Compensation of the U.S. Department of Labor in which
they accept the claim of injury from a former
firefighter at Alameda's Naval Air Station, ". . . due
to your employing agency's failure to advise you of
your 1973 to 1997 work related exposure to toxic
chemicals until February 2, 2001." The letter also
indicates that the former firefighter is being
compensated for his claim. 

Were it not for the actions of former Navy employees
Marty Martinson and Brook Beesley, that employee might
never have been compensated for his work related
injuries at Alameda's former Naval Air Station.



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