SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Occupational Disease, Cushion Plant, High Tech

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

Young woman walked with a lump and had a lot of health problem because she worked in a furniture company that exposed toxic glue and were harmful to her- she now has a lifelong problem. Negligence because the company had been warned about the toxicity of the chemical"s. Advised to open windows and increase ventilation and they didn"t do any of those. Got very ill because of malpractice and exposure. Taylorsville, n. c. sheri farley walks with a limp. For about five years, ms. farley, 45, stood alongside about a dozen other workers, spray gun in hand, gluing together foam cushions for chairs and couches sold under brand names like. Fumes from the glue formed a yellowish fog inside the plant, and ms. farley"s doctors say that breathing them in eventually ate away at her nerve endings, resulting in what she and her co-workers call dead foot.