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TexasTowelie

(111,288 posts)
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 12:50 AM Dec 2016

Jury awards $550K to fired Western State employee who reported expired food

OLYMPIA — A Pierce County jury has awarded nearly $550,000 to a former Western State Hospital employee who claimed he’d been retaliated against after reporting expired and improperly stored meat.

A jury Friday awarded the money to Michael Quayle, who was fired from Western State, Washington’s largest psychiatric facility, in November 2014, according to a news release from Quayle’s attorney.

That year, “Quayle reported expired and improperly stored meat in a location where food was prepared for patients,” according to the news release by attorney James Beck.

The meat included chicken hearts and gizzards. Photos provided by Beck of the meats’ packaging show sell-by dates for 2013.

Read more: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/jury-awards-half-a-million-to-fired-western-state-employee/

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Jury awards $550K to fired Western State employee who reported expired food (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2016 OP
I lived behind Westen State GP6971 Dec 2016 #1
i worked there in 1973. braddy Dec 2016 #3
GOOD! Organ meat detiorates much faster than other parts of the animal. Certainly napi21 Dec 2016 #2

GP6971

(31,013 posts)
1. I lived behind Westen State
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 12:59 AM
Dec 2016

for 15 years. There was a small, 9 hole county owned golf course between our development and the hospital. The locals referred to it as the "Nuthouse 9".

napi21

(45,806 posts)
2. GOOD! Organ meat detiorates much faster than other parts of the animal. Certainly
Tue Dec 27, 2016, 01:00 AM
Dec 2016

the people who run the kitchen there should know that! I think $550M just might then change their food handling practices.

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