Laptop Battery Former IBM employees who developed rare cancers at relatively young ages have a hearing in a San Jose courtroom Friday to determine whether a lawsuit they filed against the technology giant in 1998 finally can go forward.
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Desktop Computer "This is by far the most significant set of cases in the electronics industry," said Ted Smith, executive director of the San Jose-based Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition.
Notebooks "The industry has certainly gotten rid of a few of the worst chemicals and made industrial hygiene changes that somewhat reduce exposure to workers. But they still use enormous numbers of very hazardous chemicals, and there are still thousands of people around the world exposed to them."
Lenovo The IBM lawsuit has fixated scientists who have long debated the existence of "disease clusters." Some insist exposure to toxins leads to group outbreaks. Others trash the cluster concept as "junk science."
Hard Drive Movies such as "Erin Brockovich" and "A Civil Action" have expanded an esoteric debate among epidemiologists and statisticians into a heated public health issue. Because of the threat of negative publicity and heart-wrenching anecdotes, many companies settle out of court, sometimes for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Travelstar IBM settled a lawsuit in 2001 by two former employees who alleged that exposure to chemicals caused birth defects in their son. But it has refused to settle the San Jose case. As a result, hundreds of court documents detailing human misery and allegations of corporate secrecy have been made public.
Gateway According to court files, hundreds of IBM workers were struck with relatively rare forms of cancer in their 30s, 40s and 50s. They often contracted lymph, blood, breast and brain cancers, as well as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, leukemia and the very rare multiple myeloma.
Laptop Parts The lawsuit could hinge on a "corporate mortality file" IBM used to document the deaths of 30,000 employees from 1969 to 2000.
Software IBM says the file helped provide death benefits for surviving spouses and contains little more than death certificates.
Hard Drives "There is no way with any kind of technical or scientific validity you can look at a list like that and keen from it a cluster," said IBM spokesman Bill O'Leary. "If these people got cancer, was it because they were in the clean room or because they were in a group with a higher incidence of smoking?"
Electronics Still, the file has ignited emotions in Silicon Valley.
Canon Another judge who heard depositions in the case on Aug. 8, John A. Flaherty, warned "there will be hell to pay" if IBM doesn't hand over all its documentation on deceased and sick workers. According to court documents, IBM failed to do this during a four-month discovery period in 2002.
Desktop Pc "I can't think of sanctions severe enough," Flaherty warned. "Disbarment is just the first thing that comes to mind. Castration is another."
Desktop Computers The file of employee deaths was analyzed for plaintiffs by Dr. Richard Clapp, a Boston University epidemiologist who specializes in the effects of toxic chemicals.
Think Pad Clapp, who also consults for the nonprofit Tellus Institute, found a "significantly elevated" number of cancer deaths among young workers. Clapp said IBM could have detected the trend as early as 1975 in men, 1985 in women.
Repair IBM workers were allegedly exposed to trichloroethylene, cadmium, toluene, benzene and arsenic. But experts say it's almost impossible to connect exposure to outbreaks.
Data Recovery Many epidemiologists say cancer clusters could show up in almost any demographic. Almost 15 million new cases of cancer have been diagnosed since 1990, according to the Cancer Information Service, often occurring by coincidence within the same family or neighborhood.
Cisco Complicating factors - whether the group contained smokers, or whether members were genetically predisposed to cancer - blur causality, according to Dr. Alan Bender, a leading skeptic of claims that the disease can be traced to a single cause.
Keyboard Bender, section chief of chronic disease and environmental epidemiology at the Minnesota Department of Health, called Clapp's analysis "a quintessential example that statistics don't mean a damn thing."
Monitor Bender said he could probably find another random group of Californians with elevated rates of the rare diseases that sickened IBM workers.
Desktop "I can go into any church, neighborhood or work force, and I can poll them and you can find a cancer cluster," said Bender, who has no affiliation with IBM. "Rarity has nothing to do with causality."
Infosys Rachel Konrad
Associated Press - 9/26/2003
Topic: Toxics
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