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Chicago is one of the nation’s largest construction centers.
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Nursing homes and nursing facilities should provide a safe, supportive environment for senior citizens, with qualified staff, nurses, and aids administering quality care.
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When a child is injured at a daycare center, parents are left wondering who can be held liable, who to contact for legal help, and how a lawsuit may pan out for them.
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If you or a loved one suffered a personal injury or financial loss due to a car accident in Edwardsville, IL – you may be entitled to compensation for those damages.
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If you or a loved one have suffered injuries, property damage, or other financial losses due to a truck accident in Edwardsville, IL – you may qualify to take legal action to gain compensation for those injuries and losses.
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When a child is injured at a daycare center, parents are left wondering who can be held liable, who to contact for legal help, and how a lawsuit may pan out for them.
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If you or a loved one suffered injuries on someone else’s property in Edwardsville IL, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
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Suboxone, a medication often used to treat opioid use disorder (OUD), has become a vital tool which offers a safer and more controlled approach to managing opioid addiction.
Despite its widespread use, Suboxone has been linked to severe tooth decay and dental injuries.
Suboxone Tooth Decay Lawsuits claim that the companies failed to warn about the risks of tooth decay and other dental injuries associated with Suboxone sublingual films.
Depo-Provera, a contraceptive injection, has been linked to an increased risk of developing brain tumors (including glioblastoma and meningioma).
Women who have used Depo-Provera and subsequently been diagnosed with brain tumors are filing lawsuits against Pfizer (the manufacturer), alleging that the company failed to adequately warn about the risks associated with the drug.
Despite the claims, Pfizer maintains that Depo-Provera is safe and effective, citing FDA approval and arguing that the scientific evidence does not support a causal link between the drug and brain tumors.
You may be eligible to file a Depo Provera Lawsuit if you used Depo-Provera and were diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Tepezza, approved by the FDA in 2020, is used to treat Thyroid Eye Disease (TED), but some patients have reported hearing issues after its use.
The Tepezza lawsuit claims that Horizon Therapeutics failed to warn patients about the potential risks and side effects of the drug, leading to hearing loss and other problems, such as tinnitus.
You may be eligible to file a Tepezza Lawsuit if you or a loved one took Tepezza and subsequently suffered permanent hearing loss or tinnitus.
Elmiron, a drug prescribed for interstitial cystitis, has been linked to serious eye damage and vision problems in scientific studies.
Thousands of Elmiron Lawsuits have been filed against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer, alleging that the company failed to warn patients about the potential risks.
You may be eligible to file an Elmiron Lawsuit if you or a loved one took Elmiron and subsequently suffered vision loss, blindness, or any other eye injury linked to the prescription drug.
The chemotherapy drug Taxotere, commonly used for breast cancer treatment, has been linked to severe eye injuries, permanent vision loss, and permanent hair loss.
Taxotere Lawsuits are being filed by breast cancer patients and others who have taken the chemotherapy drug and subsequently developed vision problems.
If you or a loved one used Taxotere and subsequently developed vision damage or other related medical problems, you may be eligible to file a Taxotere Lawsuit and seek financial compensation.
Although pressure cookers were designed to be safe and easy to use, a number of these devices have been found to have a defect that can lead to excessive buildup of internal pressure.
The excessive pressure may result in an explosion that puts users at risk of serious injuries such as burns, lacerations, an even electrocution.
If your pressure cooker exploded and caused substantial burn injuries or other serious injuries, you may be eligible to file a Pressure Cooker Lawsuit and secure financial compensation for your injuries and damages.
Several studies have found a correlation between heavy social media use and mental health challenges, especially among younger users.
Social media harm lawsuits claim that social media companies are responsible for onsetting or heightening mental health problems, eating disorders, mood disorders, and other negative experiences of teens and children
You may be eligible to file a Social Media Mental Health Lawsuit if you are the parents of a teen, or teens, who attribute their use of social media platforms to their mental health problems.
The Paragard IUD, a non-hormonal birth control device, has been linked to serious complications, including device breakage during removal.
Numerous lawsuits have been filed against Teva Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Paragard, alleging that the company failed to warn about the potential risks.
If you or a loved one used a Paragard IUD and subsequently suffered complications and/or injuries, you may qualify for a Paragard Lawsuit.
Patients with the PowerPort devices may possibly be at a higher risk of serious complications or injury due to a catheter failure, according to lawsuits filed against the manufacturers of the Bard PowerPort Device.
If you or a loved one have been injured by a Bard PowerPort Device, you may be eligible to file a Bard PowerPort Lawsuit and seek financial compensation.
Vaginal Mesh Lawsuits are being filed against manufacturers of transvaginal mesh products for injuries, pain and suffering, and financial costs related to complications and injuries of these medical devices.
Over 100,000 Transvaginal Mesh Lawsuits have been filed on behalf of women injured by vaginal mesh and pelvic mesh products.
If you or a loved one have suffered serious complications or injuries from vaginal mesh, you may be eligible to file a Vaginal Mesh Lawsuit.
Parents and guardians are filing lawsuits against major video game companies (including Epic Games, Activision Blizzard, and Microsoft), alleging that they intentionally designed their games to be addictive — leading to severe mental and physical health issues in minors.
The lawsuits claim that these companies used psychological tactics and manipulative game designs to keep players engaged for extended periods — causing problems such as anxiety, depression, and social withdrawal.
You may be eligible to file a Video Game Addiction Lawsuit if your child has been diagnosed with gaming addiction or has experienced negative effects from excessive gaming.
Above ground pool accidents have led to lawsuits against manufacturers due to defective restraining belts that pose serious safety risks to children.
These belts, designed to provide structural stability, can inadvertently act as footholds, allowing children to climb into the pool unsupervised, increasing the risk of drownings and injuries.
Parents and guardians are filing lawsuits against pool manufacturers, alleging that the defective design has caused severe injuries and deaths.
If your child was injured or drowned in an above ground pool accident involving a defective restraining belt, you may be eligible to file a lawsuit.
Recent scientific studies have found that the use of chemical hair straightening products, hair relaxers, and other hair products present an increased risk of uterine cancer, endometrial cancer, breast cancer, and other health problems.
Legal action is being taken against manufacturers and producers of these hair products for their failure to properly warn consumers of potential health risks.
You may be eligible to file a Hair Straightener Cancer Lawsuit if you or a loved one used chemical hair straighteners, hair relaxers, or other similar hair products, and subsequently were diagnosed with:
AFFF (Aqueous Film Forming Foam) is a firefighting foam that has been linked to various health issues, including cancer, due to its PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) content.
Numerous AFFF Lawsuits have been filed against AFFF manufacturers, alleging that they knew about the health risks but failed to warn the public.
AFFF Firefighting Foam lawsuits aim to hold manufacturers accountable for putting peoples’ health at risk.
You may be eligible to file an AFFF Lawsuit if you or a loved one was exposed to firefighting foam and subsequently developed cancer.
Paraquat, a widely-used herbicide, has been linked to Parkinson’s disease, leading to numerous Paraquat Parkinson’s Disease Lawsuits against its manufacturers for failing to warn about the risks of chronic exposure.
Due to its toxicity, the EPA has restricted the use of Paraquat and it is currently banned in over 30 countries.
You may be eligible to file a Paraquat Lawsuit if you or a loved one were exposed to Paraquat and subsequently diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease or other related health conditions.
Mesothelioma is an aggressive form of cancer primarily caused by exposure to asbestos.
Asbestos trust funds were established in the 1970s to compensate workers harmed by asbestos-containing products.
These funds are designed to pay out claims to those who developed mesothelioma or other asbestos-related diseases due to exposure.
Those exposed to asbestos and diagnosed with mesothelioma may be eligible to file a Mesothelioma Lawsuit.
Studies have found a link between toxic baby formula and Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) — a severe intestinal condition in premature infants.
Parents and guardians are filing NEC Lawsuits against baby formula manufacturers, alleging that the formulas contain harmful ingredients leading to NEC.
Despite the claims, Abbott and Mead Johnson deny the allegations, arguing that their products are thoroughly researched and dismissing the scientific evidence linking their formulas to NEC, while the FDA issued a warning to Abbott regarding safety concerns of a formula product.
You may be eligible to file a Toxic Baby Formula NEC Lawsuit if your child received baby bovine-based (cow’s milk) baby formula in the maternity ward or NICU of a hospital and was subsequently diagnosed with Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC).
PFAS contamination lawsuits are being filed against manufacturers and suppliers of PFAS chemicals, alleging that these substances have contaminated water sources and products, leading to severe health issues.
Plaintiffs claim that prolonged exposure to PFAS through contaminated drinking water and products has caused cancers, thyroid disease, and other health problems.
The lawsuits target companies like 3M, DuPont, and Chemours, accusing them of knowingly contaminating the environment with PFAS and failing to warn about the risks.
If you or a loved one has been exposed to PFAS-contaminated water or products and has developed health issues, you may be eligible to file a PFAS lawsuit.
The Roundup Lawsuit claims that Monsanto’s popular weed killer, Roundup, causes cancer.
Numerous studies have linked the main ingredient, glyphosate, to Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Leukemia, and other Lymphatic cancers.
Despite this, Monsanto continues to deny these claims.
Victims of Roundup exposure who developed cancer are filing Roundup Lawsuits against Monsanto, seeking compensation for medical expenses, pain, and suffering.
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Propped up in his bed at Cochran Veterans Hospital, Tom Green described how he had worked for 12 years as a truck driver hauling radioactive material in the St. Louis area.
He spoke at a fast clip as Kay Drey, a local environmental activist, struggled to take notes. Drey had never met Green before, but she knew from his family that he was seriously ill with cancer of both lungs.
Green, who had been a smoker, blamed cancer on radiation exposure from his job.
As they talked in 1979, Green had no way of knowing that nearly a decade later his comments would lead to the discovery and testing of a potentially contaminated site long forgotten by federal officials.
Green, then 63, told how he had driven truckloads of heavy uranium ingots across the McKinley Bridge to a plant in Madison during the latter half of the 1950s.
He described how the barrel-shaped ingots, 18 inches in diameter and height, were heated and reshaped at the plant at College and Weaver streets then operated by Dow Chemical Co.
Three months after his conversation with Drey in the hospital at 915 North Grand Boulevard, Green died of cancer that had spread through his spine and intestines.
Now his account is prompting federal officials to take a new look into whether the former Dow plant may be contaminated.
The Madison plant is one of four ”forgotten” sites the Post-Dispatch has discovered in the St. Louis area – sites where radioactive material was processed or stored in virtual secrecy after World War II.
There are dozens of such sites across the country that the federal government lost track of in the postwar years.
Department of Energy officials say there is no reason to believe that any of the four St. Louis-area sites poses a serious health threat.
In at least one case – the former Tyson Valley powder plant in far west St. Louis County – there appears to be no threat at all.
But the agency plans to conduct tests within the next several months at the old Dow plant and at another Illinois site, the old General Casting plant in Granite City.
The tests would determine whether buildings or equipment in those two places are contaminated by radioactivity.
The fourth local site would be hard to test.
It was a large building – torn down eight years ago – at the former small-arms plant complex in north St. Louis. Across the nation, federal and military investigators have spent millions of dollars over the last 14 years searching for and testing such ”forgotten” sites.
Investigators admit they may not be able to identify all the factories, businesses and warehouses once involved in the country’s top-secret production of nuclear arms.
What follows is a discussion of the four area sites that were lost in the shuffle: The Old Dow Plant… Tom Green had worked from 1946 until about 1958 for several small trucking companies that hauled materials for Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in north St. Louis.
The company processed uranium for the federal government under contract to the Atomic Energy Commission.
About a year ago, Post-Dispatch reporters, examining the notes taken by Drey, noticed the references to Dow.
They were able to confirm through documents and interviews with former Mallinckrodt employees that experimental uranium extrusion work had been performed at Dow during the late 1950s.
But the Department of Energy had lost track of the experimental work.
”We found nothing regarding it.
We can’t find anything in (our) records,” was the first response from Andrew Wallo, an Energy Department spokesman.
After an extensive search, the agency found two brief documents that mentioned the extrusion work at Dow.
”We hope to be conducting a radiological survey there later this year,” Wallo said.
”You could get some contamination in the equipment or the building somewhere depending on the equipment and procedures they used,” Wallo said he doubted there would be enough contamination to pose any serious health threat.
Dow operated the plant in Madison from 1954 to about 1969, employing about 850 workers at one point.
The plant has been used primarily for the fabrication of aluminum and magnesium metals.
The plant’s current operator is Spectrulite Consortium Inc., which took over the facility in late 1986.
About 450 people now work there, producing rolled and extruded aluminum and magnesium products.
A Spectrulite spokesman said: ”We are aware of the interest being displayed in the incident in the past.
But we are not commenting.”
Officials at Dow’s corporate headquarters in Midland, Mich., could find no reference to the extrusion work done at the Madison plant.
Neither could Mallinckrodt.
Raymond F. Bentele, president, and chief executive at Mallinckrodt, said the company long ago had turned over to the government any records of work is performed for the old Atomic Energy Commission.
In the extrusion process, heated metal is reshaped by forcing it through a specially designed opening.
Uranium bars that ultimately would be used in nuclear reactors were extruded from cylindrical ingots of uranium metal.
Each ingot weighed about 3,300 pounds and measured 18 inches in height and diameter.
The tests at Dow were intended to help Mallinckrodt perfect large-scale extrusion procedures for use at the Atomic Energy Commission’s uranium processing plant near Weldon Spring.
Wallo said that contamination could have occurred during the heating and extrusion process if uranium oxide flaked off the metal and was carried as dust or small specks in the air.
”There is potential for there to be residual radioactive material above our guidelines, but we certainly don’t expect any significant hazard or risk,” he said.
The old Atomic Energy Commission generally required careful control of uranium metal for security reasons as well as safety, Wallo said.
Also, he said, some degree of cleanup or decontamination normally was required once a job was completed.
Environmentalist Drey takes a more pessimistic view.
She said she was concerned that uranium-oxide dust might have settled into cracks in floors, ceilings or concrete walls and still be present.
Robert Alvarez, a frequent DOE critic, said he would not place much confidence in the effectiveness of decontamination efforts at Dow or anywhere else during the late 1950s.
”I am unaware that there were any real standards for decontamination at all at that time,” Alvarez said.
He is an environmental research professional who is now on the staff of a Senate committee investigating the Energy Department’s nuclear programs.
Granite City Plant… On his death bed, Green also told Drey that uranium metals may have been taken for X-ray to the former Dow plant in Madison.
But Energy Department researchers, while checking that statement, found this work actually had been done in Granite City at the old General Castings plant.
From 1958 to about 1966, records show, uranium products from Mallinckrodt had been taken to the General Castings building to be examined for defects with equipment similar to a large X-ray machine.
Now the structure, isolated and no longer in use, is part of the Granite City Steel complex.
Wallo said the Energy Department hopes to test the building within the next few months.
Small Arms Plant… In 1979, St. Louis officials bought and later razed a massive concrete building to make way for an industrial park.
They had no way of knowing that tons of radioactive uranium material had been stored at the building after World War II.
Now, eight years after the demolition, no one seems to know for sure where all the rubble from the 725-foot-long structure was hauled and buried.
Nor does anyone know whether the building became contaminated as a result of the products stored there.
The building – known as the ”proof house” – was part of the Small Arms Plant complex off Goodfellow Boulevard in north St. Louis.
It was used during World War II to test-fire machine-gun ammunition manufactured at the complex.
After the war, from 1947 to about 1950, the building was virtually stripped bare and later used by the old Atomic Energy Commission to store uranium products destined for government facilities producing nuclear fuel and weapons.
Workers using flashlights and often groping in the dark in the gutted firing ranges stacked metal and fiberboard containers of uranium products into thick-walled concrete corridors that ran through the building.
Sources interviewed by reporters said that most items stored in the proof house were finished products from Mallinckrodt awaiting shipment to government facilities at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and other locations.
Federal officials can find no documents relating to the storage.
Wallo of the Department of Energy said parts of the huge building could have become contaminated.
But, he said, it is doubtful this ever would have posed any serious health risk. Alvarez, the critic of the Energy Department, argued that the Energy Department lacks the documentation needed to draw valid conclusions about the site. ”If they weren’t monitoring it, they can only guess,” said Alvarez.
Mallinckrodt officials say they have no records about what was stored at the proof house; all such records had been turned over to the government in 1966.
Harold Thayer retired Mallinckrodt board chairman, said he knew of no way to accurately gauge the volume of material that may have been stored in the cavernous building. ”There were tons of it,” he said.
He said the building was used for the temporary storage of such materials as uranium tetrafluoride and uranium dioxide – commonly referred to then as green salt and brown oxide.
Others recalled seeing wooden crates containing uranium metal stored at the proof house, as well as empty 55-gallon drums.
The materials were trucked from Mallinckrodt to the proof house and later shipped out by rail.
Thayer said Mallinckrodt used the building at the government’s request.
He said he did not know whether efforts were made to decontaminate the structure, or whether decontamination had even been needed.
Asked if there could have been contamination problems, Thayer said: ”I don’t see how, unless somebody broke a container and spilled it or dropped it.
It was all sealed products, as far as I know.” During the Korean War, the government decided to reactivate a number of buildings at the Small Arms complex, including the proof house.
A St. Louis firm, Alport Construction, got a contract in 1954 to rehab the structure to put in more sophisticated ammunition-testing equipment.
In 1979, the city’s Planned Industrial Expansion Authority bought a 44 1/2-acre tract at the former Small Arms complex, including the proof house.
The purchase was part of an unsuccessful attempt to persuade General Motors Corp. to use the property and keep open its nearby assembly plant.
One year later, the agency contracted with Spirtas Wrecking Co. to demolish about 50 structures at the site, including the proof house.
Arnold Spirtas, president of the company, said in a recent interview that his company no longer had records relating to the demolition or which landfills or dumps were used to dispose of the rubble.
Spirtas said he could not recall details, but he said his company had fully complied with terms of the demolition contract.
One former employee of a nearby business told reporters he had watched some of the demolition work and believed that part of the rubble from the proof house had been buried on site.
However, Thomas J. Mullen, of the city’s Economic Development Corp., said he spent a lot of time at the site and he was sure all of the rubble from the building was hauled off.
Mullen said he did not know where the wrecking firm took the debris.
Tyson Valley Powder Plant… This is the case of the disappearing waste.
More than 60 tons of radioactive material was stored after World War II in concrete bunkers at what is now Washington University’s Tyson Research Center in far west St. Louis County.
It was moved somewhere – presumably to a plant near Pittsburgh – but no shipping records can be found.
Federal records that had gone unnoticed for decades show that the old Atomic Energy Commission used at least two bunkers at Tyson for storage in the late 1940s.
The site, about 20 miles west of St.
Louis on Interstate 44, was then part of the Tyson Valley Powder Plant, where explosives and ammunition were stored during World War II.
The government turned the 1,963-acre tract over to the university in 1963 for use in wildlife and environmental research.
Documents found last year in AEC files said the radioactive material was stored in 250 wooden barrels and metal drums – including 14 containers without tops.
The residue was described as ”68,103 pounds of C-Special and 53,252 pounds of C-4.” C-Special and C-4 were code names for slag residue from the production of uranium metal.
The AEC stored the material at Tyson from at least May 1947 through March 1948, when memos were being exchanged to negotiate shipment of the residue to a plant at Cannonsburg, Pa.
Federal officials say they are not sure where the material was taken.
University officials did not learn about the storage of radioactive residue at Tyson until reporters brought it to their attention last year.
With the university’s cooperation, reporters visited the site in June and took radiological readings in and around 16 of the old concrete storage bunkers.
None of the readings showed radiation exceeding normal background levels.
University radiation specialists later tested all remaining structures at the site, including 50 concrete bunkers.
No elevated readings were found, university officials said.
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