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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Chemicals |
| Founded | 1903 in Rochester, New York, United States |
| Defunct | 1968 |
| Fate | Acquired by Occidental Petroleum |
Area served | United States |
| Products | chloralkali products |
| Parent | Occidental Petroleum |
Hooker Chemical Company (or Hooker Electrochemical Company) was an American firm producing chloralkali products from 1903 to 1968. In 1922, bought the S. Wander & Sons Company to sell lye and chlorinated lime. The company became notorious in 1977, when residents near its chemical waste site, Love Canal, reported extraordinarily high incidences of leukemia, birth defects, and other injuries. Although Hooker had sold its old chemical waste dump site to the Niagara Falls School Board in 1953, the company was held responsible as a result of a lawsuit thereafter.[1]
- ^ Thomas, Robert E. (1955). Salt & Water, Power & People: A Short History of Hooker Electrochemical Co. Niagara Falls, NY: Hooker Chemical Co. p. 109. ISBN 1258790807.