Friday, October 09, 2009
W. Va. National Guard Members File Lawsuit
Senate Judiciary Chairman Jeffrey Kessler has sued a Delaware engineering firm. Two subsidiaries of KBR Inc., Kellogg Brown and Root Services, Inc. and KBR Technical Services, Inc., have been sued by 30 members of the West Virginia National Guard, members of the Moundsville-based 1092nd. Engineer Battalion. The lawsuit states the guardsmen guarded a water plant in Iraq while KBR contractors repaired the facility in 2003. The suit alleges they did so without being told they were being exposed to sodium dichromate, a toxic chemical linked to cancer and other illnesses.
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