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Truckmakers Mack sued over too loud sirens * USA
* Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh firefighters join suit against firetruck builders, saying they suffered hearing damage from sirens.
Lehigh Valley,PEN,USA -The Morning Call, by Peter Hall -April 12, 2013: -- Mack Trucks has become a target of firefighters around Pennsylvania who claim the bulldog's bark, or rather, its howl, is too loud... Four Pittsburgh firefighters sued Mack and five other firetruck builders, including Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp. of Nesquehoning, last week claiming they suffered hearing damage because they were exposed to the trucks' dangerously loud sirens over the course of their careers... The Pittsburgh firefighters join 15 from Philadelphia who sued last year making similar claims that the firetrucks lacked soundproofing or other measures to protect them from noise produced by the vehicles' sirens... The truck builders also failed to provide warnings to the users that the sirens were dangerously loud, the firefighters claim... Repeated exposure to the noise — which reaches nearly 110 decibels, according to court papers — over 20 or 30 years caused permanent hearing loss, the lawsuits allege... The firefighters allege the truck builders were negligent by producing firetrucks without adequate soundproofing because they should have known the danger of intense siren noise... They also claim the truck makers violated an implied warranty that the trucks they delivered to fire departments were safe for firefighters to use... A spokeswoman for Mack said she could not comment on the suits...
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