Jury: Jacobs Engineering Endangered Kingston Disaster Clean-Up Workers [1]
"A federal jury on Wednesday ruled a global contractor tasked with keeping disaster clean-up workers safe instead endangered them – some fatally.
A jury in U.S. District Court spent five hours deliberating before returning a verdict Wednesday in favor of the hundreds of blue-collar laborers who say they were sickened during the clean-up of the nation’s largest coal ash spill.
More than 30 workers who cleaned up the December 2008 spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority Kingston Fossil Fuel Power Plant in Roane County are dead, and more than 250 are sick or dying. They sued Jacobs Engineering, a global contractor TVA put in charge of cleaning up its mess and keeping workers safe. TVA ratepayers paid the firm more than $64 million."
Jamie Satterfield reports for the Knoxville News Sentinel November 7, 2018. [2]
SEE ALSO:
"Coal Ash Kills Workers. Trump Kills Coal Ash Regulations." (New Republic) [3]