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Family Sues Merck, Says Daughter’s Death Caused by Mom’s Exposure to Chemicals in Contaminated Workplace

 

The family of a Georgia woman who died from brain cancer is suing Merck, alleging the pharmaceutical giant’s former manufacturing facility in Albany exposed the woman’s mother, who was pregnant while employed at the facility, to dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals that led to her daughter’s death.

In a complaint filed earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Albany Division, the family alleges that Merck’s Flint River Plant released “a toxic soup of chemicals and substances known to be dangerous and carcinogenic to humans, especially pregnant women and their unborn children.”

According to court documents, Colleen Sullivan worked at the Albany plant from 1993 to 2005. During that time, the lawsuit alleges, she was continuously exposed to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals, including benzenetolueneformaldehydemethanolcyanide and dichloromethane (DCM)…

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