Local News in Brief : Wrong Chemical Delivered, 3 GM Employees Claim in Suit
Three employees of General Motors’ Van Nuys plant filed a suit Tuesday asking damages for injuries they claim they received from toxic fumes when a tanker truck pumped the wrong chemical into a plant holding tank by mistake.
In their Los Angeles Superior Court suit, Patrick Lee Barris, Carlton C. McMillan and Mark Hendricks say they sustained bodily injuries and shock to their nervous and respiratory systems from fumes emitted March 13 when sodium hypochlorite was delivered instead of aluminum sulfate.
The suit names as defendants Imperial West Chemical Corp., Chemical Transfer Co. and California Tank Lines Inc. It asks for an unspecified amount of general and special monetary damages.
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