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Motorola Under Fire: How Safe if Your Kansas City Workplace?

Beginning in the 1960s, the powerful business of Motorola has been using what they call “clean rooms” to manufacture many of their products.  The problem with this name is that these rooms were not as clean as their name suggested, at least not by health standards.  These manufacturing rooms were flooded with chemicals that would continually recirculate through the room and were not released in order to properly dilute themselves. 

Now Motorola is under fire.  Since the company began using these “clean rooms” it is alleged that as many as 71 plaintiffs have come forward to file a lawsuit charging the company on four counts.  According to the Chicago Sun Times, these charges include: “negligence, abnormally dangerous and ultrahazardous activity, willful and wanton conduct and loss of consortium.” 

Each one of those plaintiff’s believe that they have at least one child who has suffered from a devastating birth defect as a result of having worked at Motorola in one of the “clean rooms.”  At least 30 children of Motorola workers have been afflicted with a serious birth defect ranging from autism, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, sterility, brain and skeletal malformations, physical and mental impairments.  In two separate cases, children were born without one ear.  Some may view this as coincidental, but to others the evidence is quite compelling. 

The group that has filed suit claims that Motorola knew (or should have known) it was emitting these dangerous chemicals into their “clean rooms.”  The suit goes on to claim that in the mid-1980s, the company was made aware of the hazardous nature of the chemicals they were using.  Sighting that, in fact, Johns Hopkins University teamed up with IBM to prove that such chemicals could result in “serious reproductive harm” if prolonged exposure continued - releasing the findings of that study in 1986.  The lawsuit charges that Motorola failed to provide protective clothing to their employees while in these clean rooms, despite their knowledge of potentially harmful side effects.   

If you believe that your child has suffered a birth defect as the result of your own unsafe or hazardous work environment, contact the Kansas City Child Injury Lawyers at Kansas City Accident Injury Attorneys for a free consultation.

  

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