Dirty Secret

Throughout its 38-year lifespan, Greenwood Chemical Company, based 20 miles west of Charlottesville, survived numerous fires, explosions, complaints, citations and the deaths of eight of its workers. Although a fire in 1985 finally put the company out of


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