CPS Energy was recently sued in two separate lawsuits alleging its workers were harmed or killed on the job. Crews are seen here in storm-ravaged Refugio after Hurricane Harvey in 2017.is facing a pair of lawsuits filed hours apart over deaths and injuries of employees allegedly exposed to a toxic chemical on the job and the death of a quarry plant manager allegedly electrocuted by a downed power line.
"A lot of these guys gave their entire working life to CPS, or nearly all of it," he said."Worked there for 30 or more years." "EPA identified health risks, including developmental toxicity, reproductive toxicity, liver toxicity, kidney toxicity, immunotoxicity, neurotoxicity and cancer from inhalation or dermal exposures to TCE," it reported.
The plaintiffs are Antonio Cadena, Michael Capps, Librado Cavazos, Kenneth Conner, Jesse De La Vega, Guy Dever, Ronald James, Robert Knight, Ignacio Martinez, Edward Mihalski, Edward Niestroy, Juan Ramirez and Baldemar Rocha. The majority of them"have some degree of a fairly serious, permanent condition." Those conditions vary from neurological to respiratory to cancer-related illnesses and immune-related diseases.
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