KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Former workers at the Bannister Federal Complex are asking for a congressional investigation in the wake of an NBC Action News investigation that revealed dozens of sick and dead workers.
A group led by former Kansas City Plant supervisor Maurice Copeland met with an aid to U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, (D) Missouri, asking for an outside review.
The NBC Action News investigation uncovered a list of more than 180 illnesses that former co-workers fear may be linked to toxins at the facility.
Copeland says their fears had mostly been ignored until now.
“I'm pretty fed up with the process that we're going through and after ten years, now it's all been exposed where we've had ten years of people sick and dying,” Copeland said.
Officials at the complex say annual environmental on the office building side of the facility show there are no known health concerns there.
Officials on the other side of the facility, where they produce non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons, say contaminants there are controlled.
An aide in the Senator’s office says staff members are looking into the workers concerns.
