[CPEO-BIF] Modine (Camdenton, Missouri) workers' family sues

[Lenny Siegel]

[For background, see my report at http://www.cpeo.org/brownfields/reports/C-D/Camdenton.pdf. - LS]

Missouri Plant Owners Blamed for Cancer Death 

by TRACI RORK
Courthouse News
May 10, 2017

CAMDENTON, Mo. (CN) – The wife and son of a Missouri plant worker who died of cancer claim in court that the parts manufacturing plant is responsible for poisoning him and contaminating an entire community.

Gary Seaton, a long-time machine operator at the Camdenton, Mo., plant, died in 2016 after years of suffering from liver, colon, bladder and lung cancer.

From 1969 until 2012, Seaton not only came in contact with cancer-causing chemicals while working for Modine Manufacturing Company, but he also breathed in poisonous vapors and drank contaminated water at his nearby home, according to a lawsuit filed May 1 in Camden County Circuit Court.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.courthousenews.com/missouri-plant-owners-blamed-towns-contamination/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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