Friday, October 15, 2021

Lawsuit filed against LyondellBasell

Via Houston Public Media: 
The father of a worker who died during a chemical leak at LyondellBasell’s La Porte facility in July filed a $1 million lawsuit against the company on Thursday.

According to the lawsuit, LyondellBasell became aware of a leak inside of the Acetyls Unit at the 1515 Miller Cut Off Road facility on July 27, and decided to delay permanent repairs — opting to instead to temporarily fix the leak.

Later that day, 32-year-old Shawn Kuhleman was working near the Acetyls Unit when more than 100,000 pounds of a mixture of harmful chemicals — including acetic acid, methyl iodide, and hydrogen iodide — was released into the complex, the lawsuit reads. The lawsuit says Kuhleman was fully exposed to “the harmful toxic chemicals which burned his body internally and externally,” resulting in his death.

36-year-old Dustin Day was also pronounced dead at the scene, and 30 workers were hospitalized.

That sounds awful. Condolences for the families of the deceased, and here's hoping the facts of what happened will be described in full soon. 

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