DutchNews, April 13, 2016
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| Photo: AkzoNobel |
AkzoNobel has paid a
former worker at its chlorine factory in Hengelo ‘several hundred thousand
euros’ to settle a claim that his job made him ill, according to local paper
Twentsche Courant Tubantia.
The man claims he was poisoned by mercury while
working as a mechanic at the plant in 2003. The factory was closed in 2005.
A
spokeswoman for AkzoNobel has confirmed the payment but refused to make any other
comment about the specifics, news agency ANP says.
She said it had never been
proved the man had been poisoned but the opposite could not be conclusively
proved either. AkzoNobel decided to settle after years of legal proceedings,
she said.
She said the company tested the urine of everyone who works with
mercury since 1951 and guidelines have never been exceeded. Workers who showed
raised levels were immediately switched to other jobs, she said.
‘We have
always led the pack when it comes to safety,’ plant director Peter de Jong told
Tubantia.
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