1/11/2012

Soldiers who worked with military burn pits may be able to seek reparation

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By Mauehu Chandler


A team of experienced injury attorneys Riverside have to address lots of different claims in the course of their career and astonishing cases are becoming apparent involving veteran or serving military personnel. Numbers of service staff are stepping forward complaining of persistent breathing issues and serious chest pains that are thought to have been caused by lengthened exposure to army burn pits while on a tour of duty in the Middle East.

When you have enormous military bases containing thousands of troops and civilian contractors they are going to create lots of waste, and one of the most expeditious techniques of losing this rubbish is to burn it. Reports say in Bagram Air force base alone (the biggest military base in Afghanistan) there are more than fifty thousand troops and thousands more contractors, each producing around 4.5kgs of waste each day. Also, at its height back in 2004, Joint Base Balad in Iraq was burning around 147 tons of waste every single day in burn pits the scale of several soccer fields. This was a continual operation twenty-four/7

The difficulty is that according to experts, all types of waste gets burnt, including human waste, hazardous medical waste, dangerous waste, plastics, electronics, hydraulic fluids and even vehicles. Often, jet fuel is used as a form of accelerant

So what are the leading indicators of lengthened exposure to burn pits? A Riverside injury lawyer explains....

Unfortunately comparative statistical data haven't been documented thanks to a shortage of proper test clobber in Afghanistan and Iraq and are thus unavailable. However it is apparent that there's been an increase in respiration sickness, various cancers and chronic allergies to returning squaddies as well as in the local population who live in and round the air bases.

As at 2011, current serving or military members have filed cases in 43 out of the fifty states for injuries suffered due to suspected exposure to burn pits. These claims have been filed against the Dept of Defence contract company who were handling waste product control at that point. (KBR and their parent organization Haliburton). The litigations claim that Kellogg Brown and Root waste product control services had a moral duty to inform troops and contracted civilians who were working in and around the burn pits, of the hazards and questions of safety of the pits, but failed in their actions to do so. If you think that you are a victim of lengthened exposure to noxious gases due to burn pits while serving in the Middle East, then it is vital that you contact an injury attorney Riverside, California who can be useful.




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