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Resource ID: #26451
Subject: Environment
Source: Fort Worth Weekly
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Date: 2013-04-10

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Employees of Technicoat, a metal coating company based in Fort Worth in the '70s and 80s, hired teenagers to dispose of industrial waste and harmful chemicals. None of the employees went through any kind of safety training or were given protective gear. Now many of the company's former employees have either died from illnesses linked to chemical exposure or are currently battling illnesses that are likely related to being exposed to chemicals during their tenure at Technicoat. The story found that the city of Fort Worth and the Tarrant Regional Water District are still dealing with the environmental impact of the company's illegal chemical dumping - sometimes down storm drains, in holes dug in the ground, or straight into the Trinity River - as the area that housed the Technicoat plant is being redeveloped. It also discovered that the company blatantly disregarded federal safety standards and was fined multiple times by different federal, state, and local agencies for environmental and safety violations.

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