Potential Workers Compensation Claim for 2000 Employees
Posted by
Pat JenningsAugust 24, 2007 5:02 PMA Rock Hill company may find itself with one of the largest Workers Compensation cases in the South Carolina state history. A meeting will take place Friday, August 24 at the Winthrop Coliseum that may bring in as many as 2000 former employees at the Celanese plant.
Attorney Chad McGowan, of Rock Hill, will be conducting the meeting in order to gauge the interest in pursuing legal action. Both cancer and respiratory ailments have been linked to the plant, due to the use of certain chemicals in which were repeatedly used, such as benzene and toloene.
Doctors of Duke University have been working on the potential claimants as well as attorneys from Charleston and Miami, FL in relation to the illnesses. McGowan has been placing advertisements in The Herald newspaper over the course of teh last month in order to stir the interest in the potential suit. He says that he interest is growing very quickly. "We've been getting calls literally every five minutes since these ads started running."
Celanese employed over 1600 people at its highest peak and constructed the materials commonly used in furniture, suit linings and cigarettes. Jobs were drastically cut due to overseas competition, and the plant was ultimately forced to shut down in April 2005.
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