The trial Court in a class action case, filed in co-ordination with this office, held that the chemical companies alleged omission and concealments were actionable as a common law fraud. It was alleged that the companies failed to communicate this information to the plaintiffs.

 Workers can inadvertently carry hazardous materials home from work on their clothes, skin, hair, tools, and in their vehicles. As a result, families of these workers have been exposed to hazardous substances and have developed various health effects. Health effects have also occurred when the home and the workplace are not distinct -- such as on farms or in homes that involve cottage industries.

In this statement, plaintiffs identify, chronologically, the date and location each defendant joined the conspiracy largely through the acts of each defendant’s representative(s) on the various vinyl chloride-related committees identified herein. 

In this statement, plaintiffs identify, chronologically, the date and location each defendant joined the conspiracy largely through the acts of each defendant’s representative(s) on the various vinyl chloride-related committees identified herein. 

Plants that made vinyl chloride monomer and other products.

1974 – PRESENT As previously shown this secrecy was maintained by every company in the vinyl group, but most copies of documents indicating the MCA Group’s corrupt desire to defocus cancer were either destroyed or concealed by MCA-coordinated vinyl manufacturers some time after 1974. 

1974 – PRESENT  As previously shown this secrecy was maintained by every company in the vinyl group, but most copies of documents indicating the MCA Group’s corrupt desire to defocus cancer were either destroyed or concealed by MCA-coordinated vinyl manufacturers some time after 1974. 
Upon information and belief, with the exception of this case and a few cases in Louisiana filed in the early 1990s, all such documents have either been destroyed or maintained in closest confidence. 

1959-1973 No U.S. vinyl manufacturer placed any warning label indicating a chronic human health hazard on vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins or products. Throughout this time the CMA’s Safety Data Sheets (SD-56) contained the false assertion that vinyl chloride could be readily handled without stringent occupational safeguards for VCM or PVC workers in handling it, aside from fire and explosion, and unequivocally/uncritically recommended the 500 parts per million (ppm) Threshold Limit Value (TLV) established by ACGIH in 1962. 

There are many adverse health effects that can occur in persons who have been exposed to vinyl chloride, including angiosarcoma, liver cancer and disease, brain cancer, Raynaud's syndrome, and acro-osteolysis. The following list describes each of these ailments.

Workers who were employed by plastic manufacturing giant Pantasote filed a class-action lawsuit against the defunct company Thursday in state Superior Court in Essex County, claiming that it conspired to hide the dangers of vinyl chloride and intentionally injured their health. 

Her body's betrayals, in her 45 years, range from asthma to infertility, from miscarried quadruplets to malformed organs. She wears a scar across her throat like a necklace that binds her to others who have had thyroid tumors removed.  

 This fact sheet answers the most frequently asked health questions about vinyl chloride. For more information, you may call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737. This fact sheet is one in a series of summaries about hazardous substances and their health effects. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. 

EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM OR REPEATED EXPOSURE: The substance may have effects on the liver, blood vessels and connective tissue. This substance is carcinogenic to humans. May cause heritable genetic damage in humans.