Birth Defects, Cancer: Groundwater Contaminated; Workers Exposed To Toxic Chemicals– Another Corporation Manipulating The System (picture, video)

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In 2007, IBM said it would settle Endicott residents’ claims with a $3 million payment, an offer that was dismissed as insufficient to compensate victims in a $100 million lawsuit against the Armonk-based company. morehere

In the seven years since this settlement was rejected as insufficient,  Endicott IBM workers have been exposed to a toxic pool of nasty, often carcinogenic chemicals, which local media says are  difficult to clean, and which also contaminates groundwater.

Local newspaper reports say workers at the contaminated site need more protection.

Workers exposed to TCE in Endicott need more protection

From the editorial board 5:34 p.m. EDT April 17, 2015

 

Underneath these former IBM buildings on the Huron campus in Endicott is a pool of chemicals that is proving difficult to clean.

In the community’s must-do file, add an urgent cautionary note for the Huron campus worksite in Endicott that sits atop a toxic pool of trichloroethylene.

About 1,500 people work at the former IBM site where the ground and water table is contaminated with the chemical that IBM used in its manufacturing operations.

An expert on TCE contamination recently told a workers and residents meeting in Endicott that employees at the location ought to be getting more information about the TCE vapor testing and the chemical’s concentration levels in the indoor air.

Of particular concern in Endicott and at other spill sites across the country is that TCE exposure is now associated with birth defects for women exposed to it for short periods of time over days or weeks. TCE exposure has previously been linked to several serious human diseases. In 2011, the federal Environmental Protection Agency determined the chemical was a carcinogen.
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