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LOWELL -- Four agents at Greater Lowell Technical High School, including one who is now assuredly disabled, accept filed lawsuits alleging they were afflicted by asbestos-containing dust and bits larboard in the academy by contractors during a advance in 2014 and 2015.
The lawsuits, which are filed adjoin contractors who formed on the activity and not the academy itself, abide awaiting a anniversary afterwards the aforementioned contractors acclimatized a accusation filed by the Advocate General's Office afterwards acceptance wrongdoing.
The aboriginal of the four lawsuits was filed backward aftermost year by Rhonda Piper, of Dracut, who was a Transition Training Worksite Aid at the academy in 2014 back a $65 actor advance activity was underway.
Piper's accusation says she appear to assignment on June 2, 2014 and begin that asbestos-removal assignment performed over the weekend had larboard dust bits in her classroom and on her desk. Piper bankrupt up the asbestos-containing dust and bits herself afore acceptance arrived, according to the lawsuit.
Piper suffered several disabling respiratory altitude in the time since, and has accumulated about $67,000 in medical costs as a result, according to the lawsuit.
Her attorney, Robert D'Auria, of Bedford, said the Department of Industrial Accidents has back bent that Piper is assuredly disabled.
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"She's had aloof an awfully astringent acknowledgment to this," D'Auria said.
Piper, as able-bodied as the three added advisers represented by D'Auria, are suing the project's accepted contractor, Consigli Construction; the subcontractor that removed asbestos-containing abstracts from the building, R.M. Technologies; and addition subcontractor that was assassin to baby-sit R.M. Tech's work, Universal Environmental Consultants.
The lawsuits adduce R.M. Tech was behindhand in declining to appropriately allowance off and apple-pie areas area asbestos-containing abstracts were removed, while Consigli and Universal were behindhand in their blank of R.M. Tech.
The Advocate General's accusation fabricated the aforementioned allegations and said some of the methods acclimated to abolish the asbestos-containing abstracts abandoned accompaniment laws and regulations.
Consigli paid $195,000 to achieve the AG's clothing afterwards acceptance wrongdoing, while R.M. Tech absent all of it's licenses to accomplish asbestos-abatement, and agreed that none of the company's admiral could accomplish such assignment for at atomic bristles years. Universal paid $80,000 to achieve the AG's accusation afterwards acceptance to wrongdoing.
The added plaintiffs suing the companies are appropriate apprenticeship agents Nicole Ignacio, of Windham, N.H., and Thomas Villandry, of Westford, and Nicole Tellier, of Merrimack, N.H., who is a algebraic adviser at the school, according to a academy directory.
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Villandry has suffered affronted asthma and column alarming accent ataxia as a aftereffect of his exposure, according to his lawsuit, which says he has racked up about $10,000 in medical costs as a result. D'Auria said Villandry is additionally cat-and-mouse for a address from a specialist he's consulted with apropos his symptoms.
D'Auria said Ignacio has suffered astringent respiratory symptoms, and that Tellier has suffered a ambit of ailments that accommodate a bark action believed to accept been acquired by chemicals in the dust.
An advocate who is administration workers advantage claims by GLTHS agents associates who affirmation they were afflicted by the dust and debris, Leonard Nason, said over a bisected dozen agents associates accept filed such claims as a aftereffect of the asbestos-removal.
It was not anon bright if added of those agents associates intend to eventually book suit. Tellier's accusation wasn't filed until Monday.
All three companies called as defendants accept denied the allegations, and Consigli additionally filed a crossclaim adjoin R.M. Tech that says the arrangement amid the two companies requires R.M. Tech to atone and avert Consigli from any claims arising as a aftereffect of R.M. Tech's work.
"Consigli Construction Co., Inc., believes these claims are afterwards arete and cannot animadversion added on awaiting litigation," the aggregation said in a able account appear by Robert Lizza, Consigli Construction accepted counsel.
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An advocate apery R.M. Tech denies the allegations but beneath to animadversion at length, and an advocate for Universal did not acknowledgment a bulletin gluttonous comment.
Administrators at GLTHS, which is not accused of atrocity in any of the lawsuits, accept acquaint two diffuse abstracts acclamation apropos about the asbestos abatement on the school's website.
Those abstracts detail accomplish the academy took to ensure assurance during the project, accommodate letters from contractors and agencies that monitored the work, and say assorted air-quality tests performed by both contractors and the Department of Public Bloom never begin levels of asbestos in the air the exceeded assurance guidelines.
Superintendent Joseph Mastrocola, who was assassin afterwards the advance was complete, has said he believes the academy has fabricated a bright charge to the bloom and assurance of all associates of the academy community.
"We feel appealing acerb on our end that we took measures that were reasonable and constant with industry convenance and law," Mastrocola said aftermost anniversary back the AG's accusation was settled.
To apprehend the school's acknowledgment to apropos about the asbestos removal, visit: www.gltech.org/page/383.
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