The Nation - News from April 14, 1985
Four corporate executives will go on trial in Maywood, Ill., this week for murder in the first prosecution of an employer for an employee’s death caused by his work environment. The four executives are charged in the February, 1983, death of Stefan Golab, a Polish immigrant who was poisoned by inhaling cyanide gas at the now-defunct Film Recovery Systems Inc. Prosecutors have described as a “huge gas chamber” the Film Recovery plant where cyanide was used to extract silver from used X-ray film.
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