[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "Army says workers in Germany exposed to toxic cadmium last year"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army says workers in Germany exposed to toxic cadmium last year

By JOHN SANDIVER 
STARS AND STRIPES 
July 27, 2018

STUTTGART, Germany - A group of workers at a U.S. Army warehouse in Dulmen, Germany, was exposed to a toxic agent more than a year ago after mishandling a shipment of material that contained cadmium, the Army said.

The incident occurred in June 2017 at Tower Barracks, which is a site used by the Army for pre-positioning equipment.

The items were “incorrectly cleaned in a single section of a single warehouse by eight employees,” Col. Sean Kuester, commander for U.S. Army Garrison Benelux, told reporters earlier this week, according to a transcript obtained Friday.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stripes.com/news/army-says-workers-in-germany-exposed-to-toxic-cadmium-last-year-1.539827

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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