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Summary Of The death Of Karen Silkwood The Death of Karen Silkwood is a story about the death of a 28 years old woman . Her name is Karen Silkwood . According to the author's story , she died in a car accident in 1974 . The beginning of the story is when Karen changes her job as a secretary to work as a laborer at an unclear factory . At the first , she likes everything the wage , the job and the workers too .She has a lot of friends immediately . The end was not as satisfying as the beginning . Everything was fine until that day when Susan ( Karen's best friend ) faced a curial situation at the factory . Everyone had a bad feeling about that and Karen too . Since that day , the safety at the factory got worst and worst . Every day the alarm sounds many times . The leaders didn’t care about the safety of workers . They just cared of the money . Karen decided to save the factory and the workers that is why she nominated herself to be one of the officials at the factory's union committee . Few days after she became an official, a serious meeting was held in Washington upon the factory's committee request . She went there and talked about the dangerous situation and the worst safety at the factory . After the meeting ended ,pete (one of the union committee leaders ) asked her to go behind the factory's leader back and bring him the evidences until the coming meeting was held . She did exactly what he asked her . Unfortunately , the factory's leaders noticed the strange movement of Karen . Then they started following Karen everywhere but that didn't stop her . She kept collecting the evidences and she hided the negatives , photos and the papers in brown envelop inside a hall in her house's wall . One day after she finished her works and during checking her hands on the scanner , the alarm screamed loudly and men in white jackets came in . They took her to have a shower because there was uranium dust on her hand