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Court orders Exxon Mobil to pay up for radiation contamination

The claims are among thousands pending against Exxon and other oil companies over allegations that they put employees and residents near pipe-cleaning operations at risk from radiation- related diseases, particularly cancer.

Exxon Must Pay $1.2 Million for Workers’ Radiation (Update2) – BusinessWeek, )March 05, 2010,By Bob Van Voris and Leslie Snadowsky, March 5 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. energy company, must pay $1.2 million to 16 Louisiana workers who claimed they were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when they were cleaning used oil drilling pipes, a jury said.

A state court jury in Gretna, Louisiana, today awarded the men amounts ranging from $10,000 to $175,000 each, finding that they face an increased risk of cancer as a result of their exposure to naturally occurring radioactive material in the used pipes between 1977 and 1992…………

The owners of the property where the men worked won a $1 billion punitive jury verdict against Exxon in 2001 for radioactive contamination from the pipe-cleaning operation. The punitive judgment was reduced to $112 million and paid, with interest, after Exxon’s appeals failed.

The claims are among thousands pending against Exxon and other oil companies over allegations that they put employees and residents near pipe-cleaning operations at risk from radiation- related diseases, particularly cancer.

Cancer Claims

The verdict comes after Exxon settled several claims in the case by plaintiffs who had developed cancer……..Radiation Danger

The workers claimed Exxon delayed disclosing the radiation danger to prevent federal authorities from reclassifying as hazardous waste the radioactive water it pumped from wells. An internal Exxon document estimated the cost of the regulatory change at $750 million the first year plus $150 million a year thereafter, the plaintiffs claimed.

Exxon Must Pay $1.2 Million for Workers’ Radiation (Update2) – BusinessWeek

March 5, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive