Residents of Eagan, Minnesota, were able to claim part of a $30 million settlement from a lawsuit stipulating that Gopher Resource had exposed workers and families to toxic lead for two decades.
In 2021, a class-action lawsuit, Brown, et al. v. Gopher Resource, was filed in Florida against Gopher Resource.
According to the Star Tribune, “former workers said that they were repeatedly exposed to unsafe levels of lead, that they were not given proper protective equipment, and that the company did not teach them how to protect themselves and their families from exposure.”…