LAS VEGAS, May 19 (UPI) -- A Nevada woman says her long-running battle for compensation for her husband's death has become a crusade to expose U.S. Department of Labor intransigence.
Bonnie Mattick told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the agency has refused to authorize the $150,000 in she feels she is owed after her husband died of cancer she says was caused by his work with toxic and radioactive materials at the Nevada Test Site.
"What I want to do is expose the Department of Labor and their inability to act on all the information they've been given," she said.
The newspaper said a big part of the problem is that the Department of Energy hasn't provided records that fully document John Mattick's exposures at the highly classified sites.
"He had access to all areas at the Nevada Test Site and Area 51," Bonnie Mattick said, contending that the Labor Department should give her and other surviving relatives the benefit of the doubt.
The Review-Journal said Monday that the Labor Department declined comment on the matter.