Disability Lawyer Rosasco Says Verizon Toxic Waste Site Unsafe
Once again, Mark Harrington of Newsday continues to do a superb job of uncovering previously unreleased documents about the dangers still lurking in the soil and air surrounding the former Hicksville Sylvania nuclear fuel rod fabricating plant, now owned by Verizon. Yesterday, he published the fourth article in an ongoing series about the Hicksville nuclear site and its impact on thousands of workers. Harrington details the most recent March 2007 Army Corps of Engineers report about the proposed future cleanup of this "dirty" site contaminated with both radiological waste and chemicals such as TCE and PCE. Updating the health of my client, the article goes on:
Troy Rosasco, DePascale's Hauppauge-based attorney, said his client is preparing for surgery on May 17 to remove a tumor even as he recovers from the removal last month of half of the other lung. At the same time, he said, continued testing raises questions about assurances that the site was completely safe. "It tells me that the State Department of Health...is operating fast and loose with data the US Army Corps says is missing" Rosasco said.
Despite winning his case after a trial over two months ago, Gerard DePascale is still without any workers' compensation payments due to the frivolous appeal filed by his employer, Hudson News Group. All the while, every day another present or former employee who worked at this toxic "glow in the dark" work site calls my office to get on the list of potential future plaintiffs in a future major litigation to provide medical monitoring for all those exposed. Even if you are currently healthy, you may be entitled to future medical monitoring. If you are currently sick, you may have additional legal remedies. If you would like your name placed on the contact list for any future litigation or discuss any other potential claim, please call Troy Rosasco at 631-582-3700, ext. 123.
What about all the workers in the Air Techniques Plant that worked every day above the waste and were told we were safe to work even during the drilling & cleanup right outside the door?
We were also told a test of the plant revealed safe conditions. Now we have to question this, being we have all this evidence at this point.
My concern is because I started working at Air Techniques as a healthy individual. During my time there I found I was getting respiratory problems that the doctor did not have any answers for and said these may be allergies.
Now, we are out of that place, in the new building in Melville and all of a sudden, my respiratory problem just went away.
Coincidence? I'm starting to put the pieces together and with a little help of these articles, I come to believe we were lied to.
What is in store for us in the future?
I don't know since I am not a doctor. However, I agree with you that all Air Techniques and Gilbert Displays employees are at a similar risk as the Magazine Distributors employees. Feel free to call if you or your fellow workers would like to discuss further.