"Michigan’s environmental regulator will reinspect a shuttered plant that’s part of Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan’s auto parts empire following complaints that the chrome-plating site used a chemical that causes cancer."

"Former workers at Chrome Craft Corp., a division of Khan’s Flex-N-Gate Group, initially spoke out in December. At a town hall-style meeting Thursday near the 75,000-square-foot facility in Highland Park, part of metropolitan Detroit, residents told the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality of an increase in cancer in their neighborhoods.

After the meeting, the state agreed to test soil in and around the facility for hexavalent chromium — or chromium-6 — a carcinogen. Chrome Craft sprayed bumpers with the chemical."

Adam Kealoha Causey reports for the Jacksonville, Florida Times-Union March 26, 2012.
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