Bob Harrison wrote:

>  Please correct me if my memory is off or the chemical
> used in the movie was not formic acid.
>
> Sorry but  I can not  remember the name of the movie based on a true story.
>
> In the movie  the largest class action lawsuit in the U.S. at the time was
> over health problems of workers taning leather with liquid formic acid ( I
> believe from memory). The health problems were from breathing the fumes and
> the company illegally dumping the formic acid water in a nearby creek.



Bob,

Trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene were the chemicals that were
dumped, not formic acid. Got into the water supply.

http://www.civil-action.com/facts/keydocuments/judgedec.html

Movie was A Civil Action. (Not bad.)

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120633/#comment

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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