I wonder if the crew installing the hash oil extraction machine were all high when they were installing it? If so, Darwin award candidate.

Or maybe he was working with an explosive gas and completely sober and was killed just as dozens of others killed every year?

Sounds like it was a jury rigged clandestine set up when it was still illegal, then never upgraded to make it safer when it became legal.

But of course we know the potential for “issues” when clandestine labs, even formerly so, use hazardous products in their process.

Is it hypocritical to talk so accusatorially about such things without proving you were tugging your ear when saying things like, Sounds like it was a jury rigged...?

“is suing the owner of the company that hired Eldridge as a contractor to set up the butane hash oil extraction system, which law enforcement said at the time was set up illegally.“

...and your point is??

What’s yours?

wait, charades right... sounds like....

“Court records show that law enforcement found at the warehouse multiple firearms, unidentified pills, LSD and psilocybin mushrooms.”

And here I thought legal weed and derived products were all about peaceful living, not branching out to other drugs, and removing all criminal elements from the industry? Since the plaintiff was already criminally convicted, the only dispute in the lawsuit should be how much in assets he still has or surreptitiously move under his daughter’s name.

Too bad mom couldn’t have filed two days ago on Saturday. Would’ve had a weirdly apropos aire to it.

Yet hundreds of thousands of Oregonians manage to buy, sell, raise, and consume products with no problems with the law.

I never disputed that.

Pointing out the hypocrisy of some advocates who to this day still refuse to acknowledge that there are some industry related problematic people/behaviors in their midst.

I also stand by my 4/20 assertion

Can you cite one industry w/o said hypocrisy?

Never said there wasn’t hypocrisy elsewhere, but then again, this story only focuses on the one

It's chock full of them, if you want it to be. I blame Oswald West & the Progressives.

Hypocrisy?

There are criminals in the construction business.

How 'bout real estate?

Big pharm?

And we can go on to politics if you like.

...or just limit it to WWcommenters.

Like the La MOTA duo, Rosa Cazares & Aaron Mitchell? LOL

Like hundreds of thousands of Oregonians do every day without problems as according the laws of this state.

Do you judge everything by the exceptions?

Yeah legal weed has much to catch up to legal prescribed drugs that boomers love so much. Too bad we cannot ask Ronald Reagan about the dangers of importing lots of drugs.

There was nothing legal about that operation. Totally different story. They were not operating under the law. If they had been this wouldn’t have happened.

Jessica, I'd go to your lawyer and have him explain what judgment-proof means.

In addition to offer,acceptance and consideration, one of the elements of a contract is it must be legal. The warehouse owner will be judgement proof and there is no contract to sue for on the basis of negligence. Where do the lawyers that take these cases graduate from? Amazing.....

His life was not worth 24 million dollars. Hard to feel sympathy when they add a ridiculous value to someone's life.

Nothing good happens in White City..

Wrong!!! The VA has a drug treatment center there. Some actually do recover and turn out to lead constructive happy lives after they achieve sobriety. So something good does happen in white city.

The first question to be asked: Was young Eldridge assembling the system?
And if so, what was his culpability in the butane leak? Did any of his actions lead to the leak?
One would expect these questions to be discovered during legal proceedings.
I make no assumptions but ask the question.

Any system utilizing a highly volatile hydrocarbon such as butane would have to meet National Electrical Code (NEC) requirements for fully enclosed, non-sparking electrical systems as listed. By definition it would be a Class 1, Division 1 or Class 1, Division 2 (explosion proof) environment in order to meet regulatory standards depending on the amount of flammables present. That is all on the folks putting in the illegal operation, not the warehouse owners. As the industrial accident resulted in a fatality, OR-OSHA had to be called in and a full inspection/accident investigation completed. The results are discoverable for trial purposes.

Doubt he has the cash or insurance coverage to get anywhere close to $24 million. Where do they come up with these numbers? Why not make it a $100 or $200 million? And don’t forget the attorney will take 1/3 right off the top. .

If they made it more than $50 million you'd be likely to complain twice as much...

LOL.. that has to be one of the responses I've read in a long time.

There can be two awards, actual and punitive damages.

Punitive damages distribution in Oregon (ORS 31.735):

30% to the victim, which is to be used to pay their lawyers limited to 20% of total punitive damages

60% to the AG to be deposited in the Criminal Injuries Compensation Account
10% to the AG to be deposited in the State Court Facilities and Security Account