At Boeing's Everett plant, new lawsuits allege further birth defects

EVERETT — Two new lawsuits filed this month allege more workers at Boeing’s plants in Everett were exposed to toxic chemicals that led to birth defects in their children.

The latest lawsuits follow three others filed in recent years that revealed, as reported by The Daily Herald, that the aerospace giant’s top leaders knew of the dangers inherent in the chemicals, but did little to protect its workers as some of their kids faced birth defects.

In 1980, one of the company’s top doctors, Barry Dunphy, alerted company leadership that tens of thousands of Boeing workers in the Puget Sound region were being exposed to “probably hazardous” and “certainly uncontrolled” amounts of toxic chemical mixtures. Those chemicals could lead to reproductive issues, Dunphy warned.

But company leadership batted down Dunphy’s pitch over four decades ago for increased worker protections, according to internal company documents revealed through depositions in recent lawsuits.

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