(This content was created with the help of AI.) He helped scrub cancer-linked chemicals from Wisconsin’s Fox River. Now he’s fighting cancer—and the system—himself. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel chronicles the ordeal of 66-year-old Scot Meisenheimer, who spent five months in 2013 driving a loader inside a Green Bay processing plant that handled PCB-contaminated sediment in the largest PCB cleanup project ever.
Meisenheimer says he worked in thick dust with minimal protective gear, no respirator, and ate in the same space as the toxic sludge. “If they tell you it’s safe and they’re the manager, you just know it’s safe,” says Meisenheimer, recalling his thinking at the time.
Two years later came Stage IIIC melanoma; then an aggressive lymphoma; then more recurrences—four cancer diagnoses in all…