Ford's Battery Flagship Socked by Mold Sickness, Workers Say

Black-colored mold was visible on shipping crates handled by the workers who are building the BlueOval SK Battery Park factory in Glendale, Kentucky. Workers also reported red-hued mold on the wooden crates.

https://labornotes.org/2024/02/fords-battery-flagship-socked-mold-sickness-workers-say

February 22, 2024 / Schuyler Mitchell and Keith Brower Brown

The smell of mold hit James “Lucky” Dugan the moment he walked into the plant.

Last fall, Dugan was one of thousands of union construction workers to arrive in small-town Glendale, Kentucky, to build a vast factory for Ford and SK On, a South Korean company. The plant, when completed, will make batteries for nearly a million electric pickup trucks each year.

When Dugan walked in, huge wooden boxes containing battery-making machines, largely shipped from overseas, were laid across the mile-long factory floor. Black streaks on those wooden boxes, plus the smell, immediately raised alarm bells for workers. But for months, those concerns were met with little remedy from the contractors hired by BlueOval to oversee construction.

Dugan and scores of others now believe they are in the midst of a health crisis at the site. “We don’t get sick pay,” Dugan said. “You’re sick, you’re out of luck.”

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