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Employer Criminal Liability
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Guilty PLEAS OF INVOLUNTARY manslaughter were entered by three former employees of Film Recovery Systems, Inc. for the 1983 cyanide poisoning death of a 61-year-old Polish immigrant. The application of criminal homicide laws to an occupational death was reportedly the first of its kind in the United States.
In 1982, Stefan Golab began working for Film Recovery Systems. His job was to extract silver from used X-ray and photographic film by soaking the film in vats containing a 2% cyanide wash solution. Golab collapsed over a vat and died in 1983. A medical examiner ruled the cause of death was acute cyanide poisoning caused by inhalation of cyanide fumes.
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