A proposed federal ban on a potentially deadly chemical found in common paint strippers may be on hold indefinitely. The EPA says methylene chloride poses an unreasonable risk and the chemical has been implicated in dozens of deaths. The agency proposed a ban in January 2017, but postponed it late last year.
CBS News’ Anna Werner spoke to the family of someone who lost his life in an accident similar to the ones we’ve heard before: a young man using a paint stripping product, being overcome by toxic fumes and dying.
“The pain runs deep. Not only for me but for my husband and my other two sons,” Cindy Wynne said.
Her 31-year old son Drew was the youngest of her three sons, an entrepreneur with a cold brew coffee business in Charleston, South Carolina. In October, he was resurfacing the floor of a walk-in refrigerator using a paint stripper, Goof Off, manufactured by company W.M. Barr. That’s where his business partner found him then called his brother Clayton.
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