Contractor Settles for $9.1M after Providing Defective Earplugs for Troops
Category: 3M Earplugs
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A contractor has agreed to pay $9.1 million to the U.S. government for selling defective earplugs issued to thousands of service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan from 2003 to 2015.
Known as “selective attenuation earplugs,” 3M’s Combat Arms earplugs would “loosen in the wearer’s ear, imperceptibly to the wearer and even trained audiologists visually observing a wearer, thereby permitting damaging sounds to enter the ear canal by traveling around outside of the earplug,” according to the whistleblower lawsuit complaint, which was settled Thursday.
The earplugs were designed to be worn in two ways. The wearer could insert the plugs one way if they needed to hear speech and another way if they needed greater noise protection. The plugs looked like two inverted cones connected at each bottom by a stem.
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