Texas work injury lawyers note that an Australian doctor who has been treating first responders who cleaned a toxic truck cargo spill that occurred in 1980 indicates that authorities have been trying to deflect responsibility in the incident and that they ought to pony up compensation for the suffering victims. Dr. John Mackay claims that rescue and clean-up workers received chemical and radiation exposure that has taken a severe toll on their health. One worker was discharged from his job as medically unfit as early as 1984. Dr. Mackay has noted a group of 11 chemical and radiation symptoms in the patients he continues to treat since the 1980 toxic cargo spill.
Some of these symptoms are shared by a group of construction workers who became ill on the job near Port Macquarie recently. Our Texas work injury lawyers know that you might recall that several construction workers became ill recently when they inadvertently exposed the toxic cargo’s burial site during a Pacific Highway upgrade project in New South Wales, AU.
The environmental impact report and other documents relevant to the highway upgrade project apparently did not mention any dangers from toxic chemicals or radiation that had spilled and buried after the 1980 truck wreck. Many of the documents did not mention the significant truck wreck and cargo spill at all. And after the construction workers became ill, most government authorities refused to comment in response to news inquiries. Those that did respond were quick to give non-answers reassuring that all was well.
Dr. John Mackay says that he has met with the same stonewalling and refusal to take responsibility since the 1980 cargo spill. It seems to our Texas work injury lawyers that government officials should step up, accept responsibility and most of all take steps to ensure that no further harm occurs from exposure to the toxic chemicals and radiation released in the truck crash decades ago. Many radioactive isotopes have half-lives of thousands of years. The problem of toxic exposure from the spill of radioactive materials is not simply going to go away just because the government chooses to ignore it.
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