For decades, people who sued KPR US in the U.S. District Court in Southern Georgia lived and worked within miles of the Augusta plant, claiming that they never noticed that they breathed in air that could endanger their health. According to the plaintiff’s lawyers, industrial users of EtO were aware of the potential dangers of EtO in the early 1980s. (The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency listed ethylene oxide as a human carcinogen in December 2016.)
The person prosecuting KPR US has a variety of cancers, including breast cancer, B-cell lymphoma, ovarian and colon cancer, and miscarriage. In a separate lawsuit, the deceased of Eunice Lambert filed a lawsuit after he died of leukemia in 2015.
The EPA data listed by the plaintiff’s lawyers in the lawsuit actually shows that KPR greatly reduced its EtO emissions in the 2010s, but it was much higher in the previous decades.
“As a result, individuals who live and work near KPR facilities face some of the highest long-term cancer risks in the United States without their knowledge. These people have been unknowingly inhaling ethylene oxide on a regular and continuous basis for decades. Now, they suffer from various cancers, miscarriages, birth defects, and other life-changing health effects due to continued exposure to ethylene oxide,” wrote Atlanta Cook & Connelly lawyers Charles C. Bailey and Benjamin H. Richman and Michael. Ovca in Edelson, Chicago.
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Post time: Nov-26-2021
