Mobile seaman claims he was sickened by dispersants exposure during oil spill cleanup, Press-Register, August 30, 2010:
Christopher Eldridge of Mobile, Alabama... alleges he was injured during BP oil spill response work by exposure to dispersants... according to court documents.
Court records show that Eldridge filed suit Aug. 18 in Galveston County, Texas, against Eldridge's employer, Offshore Inland Marine & Oilfield Services Inc., and the M/V Skandi Neptune's operators, BP and Subsea 7 LLC.
Eldridge claims that... harmed his throat, lungs, internal organs, and central nervous systems.
See also:
- Two more fishermen exposed: “I started to vomit brown, and my pee was brown… non-stop diarrhea unlike anything I’ve ever experienced”
- Mayor: Reports of “Mystery Dispersant” in Florida; Sprayed workers sent to hospital, then blood testing
- *FIRST TESTS RELEASED USING BP’S ACTUAL CRUDE MIXED WITH COREXIT* Water picks up 3500% more of oil’s MOST TOXIC chemicals (VIDEO)
- Tests find sickened family has 50.3 ppm of Corexit’s 2-butoxyethanol in swimming pool — JUST ONE HOUR NORTH OF TAMPA (lab report included)
- Reporter: Gulf crisis “worst I’ve seen it yet” — Increasing sickness among coastal residents, DISPERSANT use blamed (VIDEO)
- “Stingrays and flounder trying to escape the water” — “Crabs crawling out of the water in the MIDDLE of the DAY”
- Toxicologist: Dispersants extract the “dangerous cancer-causing chemicals” from crude that “bio-accumulate”; “There is a GRAVE problem”
- Non-profit “pursuing broader testing” for dispersants after “nausea and skin and eye irritation” reported by Gulf Coast beachgoers
