Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the first major case to put the electronics manufacturing industry on trial for concealing knowledge of harmful working conditions in its early clean rooms. Computer behemoth IBM is being sued in Santa Clara County Superior Court by two former workers, Alida Hernandez and James Moore, who contend they got cancer from systemic chemical poisoning, after being exposed to hazardous chemicals in the disk-drive-manufacturing clean room in the company's Cottle Road plant in San Jose.
Posted by Editor at October 13, 2003 10:14 AM