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Article: Construction worker's family sues Fermilab after leukemia death.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2000
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The family of a Montgomery man who died of leukemia in 1998 has filed a wrongful death suit against Fermilab in Batavia.
James H. Holland, who worked on a construction project at Fermilab from February to May 1998, was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia in October 1998 and died that November. He was 57.
"From everything I know, his health was fine before (being diagnosed)," said Mike Krzak, an attorney for the Holland family.
The lawsuit filed by his wife and six children against Universities Research Association, the group that runs Fermilab, alleges that Fermilab didn't warn Holland that he would be exposed to dangerous materials and didn't provide him ...