HOUSTON – A multinational product testing and certification company has been sued by a former employee who alleges that he was made to transport hazardous material though he was not certified to do so, recent Harris County District Court records show.
Armando Cano brought a lawsuit against Intertek USA, Inc. on Dec. 14 in the Harris County 164th District Court. Cano explains that he was in the process of Intertek getting him hazmat and Department of Transportation when the defendant had him begin moving hazmat.
The plaintiff learned that he would be violating the law so he refused the assignment, the original petition says. According to court papers, Intertek “continued to send Mr. Cano to transport hazmat without telling him.”
Cano soon resigned “in the face of being repeatedly forced to violate the law and continued to be placed in extreme personal danger.”
Consequently, the plaintiff seeks unspecified monetary damages and a jury trial.
He is represented by the law firm Shellist Lazarz Slobin LLP in Houston.
Harris County 164th District Court Case No. 2018-88724