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Case but reportedly settled lot suit for $2 million. stubblefield, one of the very few workers to get compensation. exxon says the few lawsuits brought failed to show any evidence of injuries or illnesses known to be caused by exposure to crude oil or the chemicals they used to clean it up. keeping them honest, dennis mosttuesday, the attorney says, he is dhaernd workers cleaning up in the gulf today may be headed for the same fate as the "exxon valdez" workers, they get sick while the records are controlled by bp. louisiana has reported that 126 reported to be sick from the spill. but bp tell...

Valdez was a blessing. >> i was out of a job, i was -- i had no choices on that. i was behind in my house payments. so and no health insurance. >> for six weeks he worked on a ship that super-heated sea water to pressure-wash exxon's crude oil off of rocks. his photos on board show the steam that he says was an oily, smelly mist permeating the ship where he worked 16-hour days. and that is when the cough began. >> nobody ever checked with us. nobody. they never did a follow-up on us. never asked if we ever had any consequences of it. they could have cared less. i'm serious. there was no follow...

>> reporter: silently poisoned. >> and that's what's happening to those people in the gulf. >> now, john and kate, bp and the federal officials insist that is not going to happen down in the gulf. that they are monitoring the air there. but a congressional committee is now getting involved in this. the house energy and commerce committee which has been holding hearings on bp now has sent a letter to exxonmobil, asking exxonmobil to dig boo its files from 1989 and fork over any health records it has on the cleanup workers and how they may have been exposed to dangerous chemicals or if indeed al...

>> alaska attorney dennis mestis represented one of the few workers who did sue, but in the process found out that hundreds of workers involved in the cleanup had fallen sick. >> and you found all of this out years later, based on -- >> on one worker that i represented. >> who is still sick? >> who is still sick to this day. even exxon was forced to concede, eventually, that gary stum pch stubblefield, was a very sick man. >> he traveled from alaska to an exxon office in houston where stubblefield's medical records and thousands of others were being held, records exxon asked a court to seal fo...

Being held, records exxon asked a court to seal for privacy reasons. of 11,000 cleanup workers, 6,722 had gotten sick. it was explained away as a simple virus, the so-called exxon crude, a flu or cold that exxon was not required to report to federal health officials. niosh, national institute of occupation safety and health was in agreement at the time. >> total bs. the only epidemiology was there was a few head colds they could identify and niosh didn't have any of the records. >> exxon never admitted fault in stubblefield's case but reportedly settled the lawsuit for $2 million. one of the v...