Lawsuit seeks $55 million for ailing coal ash cleanup workers

July 7, 2015 at 1:00 a.m. | Updated July 7, 2015 at 12:04 a.m.

by Bob Fowler/Knoxville News Sentinel

Associated Press File photoThis file handout photo provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority on Tuesday Jan. 12, 2009 shows the ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tenn., on Dec. 23, 2008, the day following the spill.
Associated Press File photoThis file handout photo provided by the Tennessee Valley Authority on Tuesday Jan. 12, 2009 shows the ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tenn., on Dec. 23, 2008, the day following the spill.

A federal lawsuit seeking $55 million in compensatory damages has been filed on behalf of 11 more workers who allegedly suffered health woes from prolonged exposure to toxic coal fly ash in Roane County, Tenn.

The complaint names as the defendant Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., hired by the Tennessee Valley Authority as the safety contractor in the cleanup of a spill of 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic coal ash sludge at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant.

The catastrophe occurred in December 2008 after a holding cell collapsed, causing a massive cascade of sludge to rush out into the Emory River and onto some 200 acres of Swan Pond countryside in Roane County.

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