Nicole's parents and the others here were brought together by lawyers suing IBM and makers of the chemicals IBM used. Only one person here is not involved in the suit. And so I'm not convinced. Like many of the people here, Nicole worked in what's known as a clean room, where computer microchips are made. These high-tech facilities are 100 times cleaner than hospital operating rooms, with special ventilation systems to remove even the tiniest specks of dust.
Workers wear special clothing known as bunny suits.
Those wafers were worth a lot of money. Those expensive wafers looked like CD's. Computer microchips are cut from the wafers. A few particles of dirt and the entire wafer is ruined, thousands of dollars down the drain. Three people here worked within a few feet of Nicole Sanders.