A former Silfab Solar employee at the controversial South Carolina solar company site being built in Fort Mill claims in a whisteblower lawsuit he was fired after contacting fire officials about safety conditions during construction, York County court records show.
Jason Rhodes alleges in the lawsuit he was a quality control technician for Silfab Solar Inc. until early this month when he was terminated.
The lawsuit alleging whisteblower violations, retaliatory discharge, wrongful discharge, and violation of state unfair trade practices was filed Tuesday in York County civil court. It names Silfab Solar Inc. and Silfab Solar of SC Inc. as defendants.
York County issued a stop work order against Silfab in late June after an inspection by county officials at the site over lack of a certificate of occupancy. A June 24 letter from York County Planning and Development Services cited Silfab for an array of violations that needed to be resolved, according to a copy of the letter The Herald received later as a public records request.
Silfab said in a statement to The Herald that the county’s concerns were resolved and implemented quickly. York County officials confirmed that work resumed in late June.
Yet Rhodes claims in the lawsuit he first told his supervisor and a Silfab director of operations on or about June 19 about “various safety matters, including that Silfab was working its employees within its plant warehouse without occupancy permit from York County.”
Rhodes alleges he...
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