An employee of Ford Contract Services is suing analog/mixed-signal foundry group X-FAB for negligence.

Brayson Hughes filed the lawsuit last week following an incident that occurred at the Lubbock, Texas location on September 12, 2018.

The suit was filed in the 99th District Court presided over by Judge William C. Sowder.

According to reports, Hughes lost consciousness while he was in a tank at the facility.

In the lawsuit, he said he was cleaning the tanks and while working on the inside of one tank, he joined the blast hood hose to an unlabeled hose. 

He became unresponsive in about 30 seconds.

The lawsuit claims the hose that was not labeled was a nitrogen line and Hughes was affected by nitrogen inhalation. 

Responders from Lubbock Fire Rescue had to use a vest and ropes to get Hughes out of the tank. He was transported to a local hospital. 

Hughes is claiming that X-FAB did not provide adequate training for its employees and that it failed to provide a safe place to work.

He is asking for damages of between $200,000 and $1 million.

X-fab did not immediately provide a comment on the lawsuit. The group manufactures silicon wafers for mixed-signal integrated circuits and it has manufacturing plants in Germany, France, Malaysia, and the United States.

Nitrogen is an invisible, odorless, and tasteless gas.  It makes up about 78 percent of the air. However, it is harmful when it is not mixed with oxygen.

Breathing in too little oxygen can cause a faster heart rate and breathing, reduced coordination, poor judgment, nausea, vomiting, and loss of consciousness. In the most severe cases, death results.

People who suffer harm from nitrogen inhalation can seek compensation from a personal injury lawyer.

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