“I threw stuff back there myself,” he told Schlichtmann. “Yep, threw it there myself. Eddie Orazine, the assembly foreman, he told me to throw stuff out in the gully there. Nothing will grow there. I didn’t know at the time the stuff was toxic. My hands used to get white from it. I used to wash down the belts with the stuff, I don’t know what it’s called, I’m no chemist.”

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 900