Methyl Bromide victim wins suit
A 32-year-old man was awarded $10 million by a Monterey County (CA) jury in late October after
being exposed to methyl bromide and suffering brain damage.
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Subject: $10 Million Dollar Award After Being Exposed to Methyl Bromide--
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:25:23 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State
of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Carol Browner browner.carol@epa.gov
Dear Mr.
Helliker, I thought you might like to read an article from the January, 2001
Issue of Members Only Pest Management - the National Pest Management
Association Newsletter, it was in The Beehive section.
A 32-year-old man was awarded $10 million by a Monterey County (CA) jury in late October after
being exposed to methyl bromide and suffering brain damage.
According to Alfred Lombardo, the plaintiff's lawyer, the
man was exposed to methyl bromide in July,1997
when he entered a recently fumigated home to install a heating system.
According to Lombardo, the pest management company did not follow the
proper procedures as mandated by the label.
"Obviously, nobody intended for anyone to get
hurt," Lombardo told the San
Jose Mercury News. "I think
what happened is the company.....got sloppy and cut corners to save a few
minutes."
Well Mr. Helliker, Compared with the safe alternatives
(heat, microwaves and electricity) that your Department of Pesticide
Regulation is about to "attack and criminally fine out of
existence"; I think that
just this one example of the needless brain damage caused by "using"
only one of your "registered" (wood destroying insect) POISONS says
it all! To continue to mandate
that only the use/misue of your "registered" POISONS can be used to
"legally control" wood destroying organisms and to stop and/or fine
any safe alternatives out of existence, is what is really criminal, in my
opinion. But, I think at least the family of one 32 year-old man might
agree with my opinion.
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten
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