[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, GLOBAL: Oregon soldiers sue KBR over hex chromium exposure

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Oregon soldiers sue KBR for exposure to cancer-causing chemical in Iraq

Julie Sullivan
The Oregonian
June 8, 2009

Background

Previous stories about hexavalent chromium contamination

Five current and former Oregon Army National Guard soldiers filed suit 
Monday against a war contractor that they say knowingly exposed them to 
a cancer-causing chemical in Iraq.

The suit alleges that managers from Kellogg, Brown & Root, or KBR, of 
Houston knew before the Oregon Guard arrived at the Qarmat Ali water 
treatment plant in May 2003 that the site was contaminated by hexavalent 
chromium, a highly toxic and long-identified carcinogen.

The plaintiffs allege the company either failed to do the required 
testing a month before the Guard arrived or destroyed the records to 
conceal the contamination. KBR also discounted soldiers' and civilians' 
bloody noses and other symptoms of exposure as sand allergies.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/06/oregon_soldiers_sue_kbr_for_ex.html
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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