Woman files suit in facial fungi case

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A Wythe County woman who says she contracted a life-threatening infection from fungi spores in an industrial coolant is suing three corporations and their various subsidiaries for $750,000.

Mary Beth Alderman, 22, of Wytheville filed her lawsuit in Wythe County Circuit Court on Oct. 14, claiming that she has been “substantially and permanently wronged, injured and damaged” after she was sprayed in the face with the coolant in October 2006

At precisely this moment the Fuchs coolant was released onto the spinning component of the lathe, with such force that it sprayed Alderman directly in the face, exposing her to potentially life-threatening mucor fungi-spores that were actively multiplying and thriving within the Fuchs coolant,” the lawsuit narrative reads.

The lawsuit says that Alderman went into a coma as a result of the infection and had to have multiple surgical procedures to remove the infected tissue.

The ordeal left her “permanently scarred, disfigured and paralyzed, greatly affecting her facial features, appearance and vision,” the court paperwork states.

Alderman also cited double-vision as a side effect of her facial paralysis.

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