Articles Posted in Toxic Chemicals

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In August 2008, 30-year-old Kevin Harrison was working for Norfolk Southern Railway when he was exposed to acid fumes from a leaking barrel at Norfolk’s rail yard in Hammond, Ind.  The acid had been shipped from Michigan in an inter-modal container owned by the defendant K Line America, which is a subsidiary of a Japanese company.

One day earlier, the driver for the defendant trucking company, Mason Dixon Intermodal, had selected the K Line container from those available at the Mason & Dixon’s Lines Inc. yard in Dearborn, Mich.

The Mason Dixon Intermodal driver inspected the interior of the container and then drove it to the loading dock of Beaver Packaging & Crating, where Beaver employees loaded 40- to 55-gallon polymer drums filled with 30 percent strength acetic acid into the inter-modal container. 

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There are many toxic chemicals found in everyday products used by families and children alike.  The chemicals that are being studied were based on one of the following factors:·        

  •        Concern for children’s health (particularly reproductive or developmental effects);
    ·         Neurotoxic effects;
    ·         Persistent toxic qualities;
    ·         Probable or known carcinogens;
    ·         Products used by children;
    ·         Detection in bio-monitoring programs.

The EPA had previously drafted risk assessments that included chemicals found in flame retardants, chemicals added to fragrant ingredients in commercial and consumer products, methylene chloride found in paint stripper products and a chemical that is used as a spray-on protective coating.These are samples of the 83 chemicals whose risk assessments were completed in 2012.  In 2014, seven risk assessments are scheduled focusing on the effects of such chemicals’ exposure to humans and the environment.

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