News tagged with 'Semiconductor Industry'

The British Health and Safety Executive, a governmental health care organization, revealed last week that employees at a semiconductor plant in Greenock, Scotland suffer from higher-than-normal rates of cancer. Researchers involved in the two-year study found high percentages of lung, stomach, and breast cancer among

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) settled with two former employees who claimed that toxic fumes they breathed in the semiconductor factory where they worked were to blame for their son's birth defects. Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed. Zachary Ruffing, now 15 years old, was born blind and wit