WTI says it isn't responsible for girl's death

LISBON -- A spokesman for a company that operates a hazardous-waste incinerator in East Liverpool says the enterprise is not responsible for the death of an 11-year-old girl as suggested in a lawsuit filed this week in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court.
Curtis Hunt, 958 Lisbon St., East Liverpool, is seeking an unspecified amount of money in damages in the death of his daughter, Kayla Hunt.
Hunt sued Waste Technologies Industries and others.
The lawsuit doesn't specify how Kayla died June 15, 2002. But it says that before her death she lived near the WTI plant on St. George Street.
The lawsuit claims WTI "negligently subjected" Kayla to "harmful and excessive levels of toxic substances... ." It goes on to list several materials, including dioxin, furan, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, mercury and nickel.
WTI spokesman Raymond Wayne said Thursday he hadn't seen the lawsuit.
The company's only comment at this time, Wayne said, is that its sympathies are with Kayla's family and that WTI is "not the cause of the family's grief."
The case is assigned to Judge David Tobin.
Hunt is represented by Atty. Steven Adler of Garfield Heights.