A jury in Chicago has awarded $30.4 million dollars to a chemical-flavoring plant worker disabled by exposure to diacetyl, an ingredient in butter flavoring used at a popcorn plant where several workers claimed similar injury.
The verdict awarded to Gerardo Solis, 45, and against BASF Corp., the world’s largest chemical company and a supplier of diacetyl.
Solis worked at a Flavorchem Corp. plant in the Chicago area between the years 1998 and 2006 when he was diagnosed with a rare lung disease called bronchiolitis obliterans. McClain said Solis is totally disabled with 25 percent of normal lung capacity and is projected to require a lung transplant within the next 10 years.
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