Trichloroethylene Exposure

When workers are exposed to toxic chemicals at work, and they develop serious disease years later, they cannot count on workers' compensation (or the work comp doctors) to protect them.  The most notorious example is workers who were exposed to asbestos. The asbestos manufacturers deliberately hid the truth about asbestos for decades. They weren't caught in their lies until the 1970's when the facts came out as a result of lawsuits by injured workers. Many of those workers were dead or dying from asbestos exposure.  Until they could not deny it any longer, work comp doctors and employers denied claims for many workers.

Now trichloroethylene exposure has been linked to the development of Parkinson's Disease, and guess what?  If you developed neurological problems after working with and around Trichloroethylene the chances are that the work comp doctor told you he couldn't say it was related and your workers' comp claim was denied.  There's still not alot of science that links Trichloroethylene to Parkinson's and other neurological problems - which means that workers will continue to have doctors telling them "We can't say this was caused by your exposure" and having claims for workers' compensation denied.  Maybe after all the Trichloroethylene workers are dead they will admit it.