A worker who was on a tanker ship in the Houston Ship Channel during a sulfuric acid leak last week has filed a lawsuit accusing the owner of the facility where the leak occurred of being “grossly negligent.”
According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday, Jeffery Lee Lawson claims he suffered from “burning lungs, shortness of breath, pain in his throat, nausea, dizziness and skin irritation” as a result of the chemical leak.
The leak occurred in the early morning of Saturday, Dec. 27, after an elevated walkway collapsed and ruptured a pipeline at the BWC Terminals facility in Channelview, east of Houston. According to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, approximately 1 million gallons of sulfuric acid were released as a result…