Pair Sentenced for Exposing Workers to Mercury:...

Pair Sentenced for Exposing Workers to Mercury: Two executives of a thermometer manufacturing company convicted of knowingly exposing their workers to dangerously high levels of toxic mercury were sentenced to six months of weekends in jail. Prosecutors criticized the punishment handed down by Justice Thaddeus Owens of Brooklyn’s state Supreme Court as “wholly inadequate.” Brothers William Pymm, 45, and Edward Pymm Jr., 43, president and vice president respectively of Pymm Thermometer Co., were convicted in November, 1987, of assault, falsifying business records and other crimes at their Brooklyn plant.