A jury awarded more than $2.5 million to a man who claimed that he suffers restrictive airway disease as a result of a chemical spill in the workplace. The suit's plaintiff, Joseph Leto, was working at Amrex Chemical Co.'s Binghamton facility on Oct. 18, 2005, when sodium hypochlorite was spilled onto the floor above him. The chemical seeped into the floor, combined with an acid to form chlorine gas and migrated into the room in which Leto was working. Amrex acknowledged fault for the spill but argued that Leto, a plumber, could have developed his respiratory impairment while working in the presence of asbestos or mold. The jury blamed the incident at Amrex's plant.
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