The requirement is part of the Tennessee Silica Claims Priorities Act, which the workers’ attorneys argued did not apply to them. Jacobs also brought a claim that most of the workers’ cases should be dismissed because they failed to file doctors’ reports concluding that the ash exposure was a “substantial contributing factor” to their illnesses. The key question of whether they caused each worker’s specific illness was left for a different jury in a second phase of the federal civil trial. The jurors said Jacobs’ actions were capable of making the workers sick. In 2018, a Knoxville jury took only a few hours to decide that Jacobs had breached its duty of safety, exposing workers to airborne “fly ash” with known carcinogens. (AP) - Attorneys for a group of workers who believe their jobs cleaning up a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee led to a slew of illnesses, including fatal cancers, have reached a settlement with the contractor who organized the cleanup for the Tennessee Valley Authority, according to a notice posted on the Jacobs Engineering website on Tuesday.īeginning in 2013, more than 200 workers sued Jacobs, claiming the company’s supervisors misled them about the dangers of the ash, failed to provide them with protective gear like respirators, and tampered with the air monitoring equipment meant to keep the workers safe.
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