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Two Philadelphia Flyers staff members are suing team ownership and multiple others for negligence, strict liability, and a loss of consortium. Jim McCrossin and Sal Raffa claim they were diagnosed with rare medical conditions caused by chemicals used in Zambonis at the Flyers Training Center in Voorhees. Crossing Broad first reported the news.
According to the Philadelphia news outlet, McCrossin, the Flyers' director of medical services, and Raffa, assistant athletic trainer, filed the complaint through Kline & Specter law firm.
The pair claimed that they were unknowingly exposed to cancer-causing carcinogens during their extensive time at the Flyers' facility in southern New Jersey, and that this exposure led to their recent diagnoses.
Raffa was diagnosed with thrombocythemia, an incurable bone marrow disease. Meanwhile, McCrossin developed essential thrombocythemia, myeloproliferative neoplasm, and myelofibrosis.
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According to the claim, the Flyers medical staff developed these diseases “as a direct and proximate result of repeated and prolonged exposure to carcinogen emitting equipment and/or machinery, and to the vapors, aerosols, mists, and gases from said equipment and/or machinery” (excerpt courtesy of Crossing Broad).
The complaint also claims that neither the Flyers training room nor the Zamboni room had proper ventilation or drainage systems. According to the claim, the Zamboni room is right near the ice rink and the training room, where McCrossin and Raffa spent most of their time.
64-year-old McCrossin has been with the Flyers since 2000, while Raffa, 42, became a Philadelphia trainer in 2004.
