[CPEO-MEF] Government contractor settles in lawsuit over workers reportedly si

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Oregon
ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS NETWORK
Government contractor settles in lawsuit over workers reportedly
sickened at chemical facility
By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press
14 August 2003

PORTLAND, Ore. — A contractor has settled a lawsuit by construction
workers who say they became sick while building a chemical weapons
incinerator at an Army storage depot, the workers' attorney said this
week.

The Umatilla Chemical Depot, near Hermiston in northeastern Oregon's
high desert, stores nearly 4,000 tons of Cold War–era rockets, bombs,
and missiles containing chemical weapons in 89 bunkers.

The Army, the remaining defendant, did not settle. A trial is to begin
Sept. 29 in Portland federal court, said James McCandlish, the
plaintiffs' attorney.

Terms are confidential, but Army contractor Raytheon Company and eight
related companies — all entities of Raytheon and Washington Group — did
not admit wrongdoing, McCandlish said.

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