Jim Morris, a seasoned investigative journalist from Texas and the founder of the nonprofit Public Health Watch, has a brand new (and scary) book about corporations concealing workplace hazards that literally kill their employees. The book opens with a longtime worker at a Goodyear plant in scenic Niagara Falls, NY who has just discovered blood in his urine—”sheets of it” —and soon learns that he and many union colleagues are all being diagnosed with deadly bladder cancer.
Morris recently spoke with Texas Observer Senior Reporter Lise Olsen about The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers, Beacon Press (January 2024).
Your book focuses on a massive scandal at a Goodyear plant, which, according to dozens of lawsuits, knowingly used a DuPont product that exposed workers to deadly toxic chemicals that caused many preventable deaths. Why did you dig into this New York case?
