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Lawsuit Results from Tile Grout Fume Death

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An Iowa woman has sued Roanoke Companies Group and Tile Perfect as well as the Home Depot for damages relating to her husband's death which resulted from chemical burns to his lungs.
 
The injury allegedly resulted from fume inhalation during his application of a do-it-yourself grout sealer, Stand 'n Seal, which the widow contends was defective and carried inadequate warnings.
 
Home Depot is named as co-defendent because it is the product's distributor.


Independence woman sues company for husband's death

Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier - 4/30/2006 9:08 PM

INDEPENDENCE --- After 34 years as a machinist at John Deere, the time came for Thomas Kayser to retire. The avid fisherman finally built the house he had dreamed of along the Wapsipinicon River.
 
He never lived there.
 
A day after reportedly applying a popular grout sealer in August, Kayser was in a hospital. By mid-September chemical burns consumed Kayser's lungs, his family says. He died at 65.

 
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