They Made Medical Devices to Heal People.
For 40 Years, They May Have Been Making Their Neighbors Sick.
For four decades, B. Braun’s Allentown facility released ethylene oxide—a cancer-causing chemical—into the air. While they manufactured products to help patients heal, families in Hanover Township, Bethlehem, Whitehall, and surrounding communities were breathing it in.
Now, families are getting answers. And compensation.
GET YOUR FREE CASE REVIEW
Do You Qualify?
✓ You may have a case if:
You lived, worked, or attended school within 4 miles of B. Braun Medical for 1 or more years
Areas include:
- Hanover Township / Allendale
- Allentown
- Bethlehem
- Whitehall Township
- Northampton
- Catasauqua
- Fullerton
- Coopersburg
- Rittersville
- Fullerton
AND you were diagnosed with:
- Leukemia
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Hodgkin lymphoma
- Breast cancer
- Brain cancer
- Multiple myeloma
- Blood cancers
- Stomach cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Other cancers
Exposed Families Are Fighting Back
In February 2025, B. Braun settled the majority of cancer claims filed against them. Nearly 100 families who lived and worked near the facility held the company accountable.
The original lawsuits told a devastating story:
- 7 families with breast cancer
- 2 families with brain cancer
- 2 families with blood cancer
- Multiple wrongful death claims for loved ones already lost
Workers and residents alike. Mothers, fathers, neighbors. All breathing the same air.
Your case deserves to be heard too.
She Never Worked There. She Got Sick Anyway.
Her husband worked at B. Braun for years. Steady job. Good benefits. They bought a house nearby to be close to work and started a family.
She didn’t work at the plant. But she breathed the same air—every day, for over a decade.
In her early 40s, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
“We thought living close to his job was a blessing. We had no idea what we were breathing.”
Now she’s fighting for answers—and for her family.
"Nobody Told Us What Was in the Air"
A longtime resident counted the cancer diagnoses on her street: breast cancer, brain cancer, stomach cancer. Neighbor after neighbor. Year after year.
She’d lived in the same house for decades—just a few miles from the plant. Never thought twice about the air.
“Who knew there was something in the air? Nobody knew anything.”
The Numbers Don't Lie
40+ years of facility operations
200x higher cancer risk than the Pennsylvania average in some neighborhoods
41,000+ residents in the elevated risk zone
8,960 pounds of ethylene oxide released in peak years
3 daycares within 1 mile. 20 daycares within 2 miles.
The EPA found cancer risk near the plant was 600 per million—compared to Pennsylvania’s average of 2.4 per million.
Time Is Running Out
Pennsylvania law limits how long you have to file. If you were recently diagnosed—or recently learned about the connection between EtO and cancer—your window may be closing.
Don’t wait to find out if you qualify.
Your family deserves answers.
Get Your Free Case Review
We Promise:
✓ NO FEES unless we win
✓ 100% Confidential
✓ You pay NOTHING upfront
✓ We handle everything
Or call now to 1-855-506-7541
This is attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes. Free consultation. Stories on this page are based on publicly reported cases and may be illustrative composites; they do not represent specific clients of this firm.