Some 1,400 people, however, are still waiting to receive ... 1968 allowed for an outbreak of Niigata Minamata disease, a mercury poisoning case caused by wastewater released into a river in ...
Four workers were diagnosed with mercury poisoning in the weeks that followed, prosecutors said. As a result of the exposure, one of the employees needed to get a pacemaker installed and another ...
The owner of a New York thermometer factory was sentenced Friday to three years of probation for failing to protect workers who were exposed to hazardous levels of mercury after a spill at his plant.