Three former employees of international trucking giant Trimac Transportation were left with debilitating injuries after years of exposure to an array of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, according to a complaint naming the company and more than a dozen of its clients including Dow Chemical, Monsanto, BASF, E.I. DuPont de Nemours and others for claims including racketeering and negligence.

All three men worked as wash rack technicians at Trimac’s Atlanta and Fairburn facilities, where they cleaned tanker trucks and railroad cars that had been used to haul chemicals such as ammonia, benzene, naphtha, styrene, toluene, sulfuric acid and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, among others.   

James H. Potts II, Atlanta. (Courtesy photo) James H. Potts II, Atlanta. (Courtesy photo)