Article: Jury Awards $9.6 Million to Worker Injured in Industrial Accident, According to Arnold & Itkin LLP.

An industrial worker who suffered severe eye damage after he was doused in acid in an April 2006 workplace accident has been awarded $9.6 million by a Houston jury, according to Arnold & Itkin LLP, the Houston law firm that represents the worker.

The jury in the 295th State District Court of Harris County found Dallas-based Occidental Chemical Corp., a unit of Occidental Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:OXY), negligently designed the acid addition system to which Equistar Chemicals L.P. worker Jason Jenkins was adding acid at the Lyondell Bayport facility when the accident occurred.

Jenkins, who lost most of his vision in one eye, alleged that Occidental's system ...

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