> **Public reading copy.** This copy was generated from a checksum-preserved approved release input on 26 October 2026. Source IDs, claim text, grades, qualifiers and limitations are retained. Public source URLs are limited to exact, dated official or court-document exceptions; other source URLs are represented as plain citation text marked `source under hygiene review`. This copy does not create a dataset release, DOI, scientific verification or legal review.
---
title: "Novelis / former Alcan Candeias (Aratu) — facility record draft"
record_type: facility_record
schema_version: "facility-record v1 draft — recovered 2026-09-28 specification"
record_id: "fr-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil"
record_status: "TIER 2 — DRAFT ONLY"
work_order: "WO-ATLAS-20261021-NOVELIS"
as_of_date: "2026-10-21"
prepared_by: "Manus AI"
review_status: "draft_not_editorially_reviewed"
---
# Novelis / former Alcan Candeias (Aratu) — facility record draft
The official MPT-BA release confirms its account of the collective judgment and medical obligations. **The full judgment was not obtained.** An original court notice confirms the case, judge and sentence identifier, but not the dispositive terms. Facility classification is corrected to a primary-aluminum smelter; operating dates remain source-specific and conflicted. [1] [2] [3] [5]
This educational facility-history record does not determine an individual’s exposure, disease causation, legal eligibility or remedy. Prepared for AsbestosAtlas.org, a project associated with Danziger & De Llano, LLP. Manus AI is the drafter; no attorney or occupational-health specialist, ANCHOR or CLEO is represented as having reviewed it. Nothing is published or approved for publication.
## Structured facility-record v1 data
The JSON below follows the recovered v1 draft field contract. **All IDs are private draft candidates pending registry reconciliation**, not newly registered permanent IDs. No existing yard, evidence, source or employment table was altered. The URN vocabulary and record identifier do not create public URLs. Judicial and exhibit-derived findings supported by the official release remain `pending_primary_review`; that means the underlying sentence/exhibits are unreviewed, not that the official release was unavailable. Source verification is not scientific or legal review.
Specific asbestos products/fiber types and source-defined peak periods are unknown; the required arrays remain empty with linked open questions. Litigation/remedial findings occupy claim-level `evidence` rows because the recovered v1 contract has no separate legal-order object. Secondary-only company-response and death-claim notes stay outside the core primary-source rows.
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"claim_text": "MPT identifies the defendant and Candeias unit as Novelis do Brasil Ltda.",
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"claim_text": "MPT describes Novelis as the former Alcan – Alumínio do Brasil Ltda.",
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"precision": "year",
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"units": null,
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"finding_text": "MPT describes Novelis as the former Alcan – Alumínio do Brasil Ltda.",
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"study_period": null,
"units": null,
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"locator": "Printed p.14, Item 1, Business, South America; paragraph beginning “In May 2009”",
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"locator": "Opening paragraph and closing operations paragraph before About Novelis",
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"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Paragraph beginning “O MPT investiga”",
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"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-dismissal-history-001",
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"units": "employees, approximate",
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"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-workforce-mpt-001",
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"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT attributes an approximately 350–400 employee workforce to Ministry of Labor data discussed by the judge.",
"population": "Facility workforce as described; not a study cohort",
"study_period": null,
"units": "employees, approximate range",
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Final paragraph beginning “Com base em dados do Ministério do Trabalho”",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "Official release confirmed; full judgment, exhibits and underlying Ministry records not reviewed. This is MPT’s account of the court’s finding, not independent measurement. No census date, turnover adjustment or all-time worker denominator supplied."
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"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-closure-workforce-company-001",
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"units": "employees, approximate",
"as_of_date": "2010-12-06",
"locator": "Opening paragraph",
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"limitations_note": "Prospective affected-employee count, not the same defined metric as MPT’s workforce range or TRT5’s collective dismissals; counts not reconciled."
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"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-asbestos-period-001",
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"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT states that Ministry of Labor data discussed by the judge placed asbestos at the unit from the 1970s through at least 2009.",
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"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
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"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-employer-documents-001",
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"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT says the court relied on company-produced PPRA risk-prevention programs, service orders and PPP occupational social-security profiles documenting asbestos presence and use.",
"population": null,
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"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Paragraph beginning “Segundo a sentença”",
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"limitations_note": "Official release confirmed; full judgment, exhibits and underlying Ministry records not reviewed. This is MPT’s account of the court’s finding, not independent measurement. Document IDs, dates, pages, original contents, material types and quantities unavailable."
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"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
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"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Last two sentences of final paragraph",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
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"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-dust-pathway-001",
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"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
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"study_period": null,
"units": null,
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"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-djen-notice-20261001",
"finding_text": "The official notice identifies ACPCiv 0000683-93.2023.5.05.0122, Ministério Público do Trabalho v. Novelis do Brasil Ltda., SC Candeias – Conhecimento.",
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"study_period": null,
"units": null,
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"locator": "Publication no.119; header, case number and party labels",
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"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-judge-sentence-id-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-judge-sentence-id-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "litigation_record",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-djen-notice-20261001",
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"units": null,
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"locator": "Notification of Sentença ID e485967; signature block",
"verification_status": "verified",
"limitations_note": "Notice available 2026-10-01. Do not infer signature date from the validation locator or use the 14 October press-release date as judgment date."
},
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"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-collective-damages-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-collective-damages-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT’s 14 October release reports R$20,000,000 in dano moral coletivo ordered against Novelis in the public civil action.",
"population": "Collective remedy in the MPT-filed action",
"study_period": null,
"units": "BRL, collective moral-damages award",
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Opening paragraph",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "Official release confirmed; full judgment, exhibits and underlying Ministry records not reviewed. This is MPT’s account of the court’s finding, not independent measurement. Award is not verified payment or collection; not an individual entitlement or allocation per employee."
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"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-first-instance-status-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-first-instance-status-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT’s release calls the sentence first instance and says an appeal remained possible.",
"population": null,
"study_period": null,
"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Opening procedural paragraph and Assistência vitalícia paragraph",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "This is dated 2026-10-14 procedural reporting, not a current complete-docket determination. Appeal filing, stay, finality, compliance and payment as of 2026-10-21 remain undetermined."
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"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-urgent-recall-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-urgent-recall-001",
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"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT says urgent relief requires recalling former employees for medical examinations within up to 60 working days, with travel, food and lodging expenses paid by Novelis.",
"population": "Former employees covered by the order; exact eligibility list unavailable",
"study_period": null,
"units": "working days, maximum interval of 60",
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Paragraph beginning “Essa é uma decisão”; sentence beginning “A decisão determinou em caráter de urgência”",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "Official release confirmed; full judgment, exhibits and underlying Ministry records not reviewed. This is MPT’s account of the court’s finding, not independent measurement. Recall is the express exception to finality timing. No calendar deadline calculated: sentence wording, notice/service event and later stay unknown."
},
{
"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-annual-exams-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-annual-exams-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT reports annual medical examinations for former employees through 2040.",
"population": "Former employees covered by the order; exact scope unavailable",
"study_period": "Annual examinations through 2040",
"units": "annual frequency; end year 2040",
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Paragraph beginning “Essa é uma decisão”; sentence beginning “A Novelis terá de fazer”",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "Official release confirmed; full judgment, exhibits and underlying Ministry records not reviewed. This is MPT’s account of the court’s finding, not independent measurement. Read with subsequent finality paragraph: other duties described as after trânsito em julgado. Exact end date, protocol, scope and interaction with urgent initial examinations unverified."
},
{
"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-lifetime-care-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-lifetime-care-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT reports lifetime health-care funding for former employees diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases supported by a medical report, after trânsito em julgado.",
"population": "Former employees with medically documented asbestos-related disease",
"study_period": "Lifetime; commencement described as after finality",
"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Assistência vitalícia paragraph",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "Official release confirmed; full judgment, exhibits and underlying Ministry records not reviewed. This is MPT’s account of the court’s finding, not independent measurement. Not unconditional coverage for every former employee. Medical criteria, covered services and actual implementation unverified; lifetime care is not capped by the 2040 examination end year."
},
{
"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-cat-duty-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-cat-duty-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT reports CAT issuance for cases of asbestos-related disease.",
"population": "Asbestos-related disease cases within order scope",
"study_period": null,
"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Paragraph beginning “Essa é uma decisão”; CAT clause",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "Official release confirmed; full judgment, exhibits and underlying Ministry records not reviewed. This is MPT’s account of the court’s finding, not independent measurement. CAT means Comunicação de Acidente de Trabalho, the occupational accident/disease notification named in the release. Exact procedural scope and finality trigger require sentence review."
},
{
"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-sus-duty-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-sus-duty-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT reports forwarding former-worker data to SUS only with each worker’s express consent.",
"population": "Former workers who expressly authorize transfer",
"study_period": null,
"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Paragraph beginning “Essa é uma decisão”; SUS clause",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "Official release confirmed; full judgment, exhibits and underlying Ministry records not reviewed. This is MPT’s account of the court’s finding, not independent measurement. SUS is Brazil’s Sistema Único de Saúde, as named in the contemporaneous reporting. No inference that records have been transmitted; exact data and trigger unverified."
},
{
"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-prior-individual-cases-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-prior-individual-cases-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT reports that two earlier individual actions brought by workers’ families had recognized the relationship between asbestos exposure and pleural mesothelioma in two former employees.",
"population": "Two former employees identified through individual litigation, not a sampled population",
"study_period": null,
"units": "2 former-worker cases; 2 earlier individual actions",
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Paragraph beginning “Segundo a sentença”; final two sentences",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "Official release confirmed; full judgment, exhibits and underlying Ministry records not reviewed. This is MPT’s account of the court’s finding, not independent measurement. Individual judgments, docket numbers, worker histories and diagnoses not directly reviewed. The release does not explicitly establish deaths. Not a mortality count, prevalence estimate or cohort result."
},
{
"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-investigation-timeline-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-investigation-timeline-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT says its investigation began in 2018 after a workers’ union complaint and the civil action had been pending since 2023.",
"population": null,
"study_period": "Investigation 2018; action since 2023",
"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Opening procedural paragraph and paragraph beginning “O MPT investiga”",
"verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"limitations_note": "Official institutional chronology, not an independently reviewed investigation file; specific filing and complaint dates not supplied."
},
{
"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-mpt-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"finding_text": "MPT-BA places the unit in Candeias, in the Salvador metropolitan area, Bahia.",
"population": null,
"study_period": null,
"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2026-10-14",
"locator": "Paragraph beginning “A decisão reconheceu”; MPT-BA issuing authority",
"verification_status": "verified",
"limitations_note": "Geographic identification in official Bahia institutional account, not a surveyed parcel."
},
{
"evidence_id": "ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-trt-001",
"claim_id": "clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-001",
"facility_id": "novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil",
"evidence_category": "government_investigation",
"primary_source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-trt5-dismissals-20110819",
"finding_text": "TRT5 places the Candeias factory in Centro Industrial de Aratu.",
"population": null,
"study_period": null,
"units": null,
"as_of_date": "2011-08-19",
"locator": "Opening paragraph",
"verification_status": "verified",
"limitations_note": "Historical industrial-area designation, not a precise property boundary or current use."
}
],
"sources": [
{
"source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014",
"title": "Novelis é condenada em R$20 milhões por expor trabalhadores ao amianto",
"author_or_issuing_body": "ASCOM, Ministério Público do Trabalho na Bahia / PRT 5ª Região",
"publication_date": "2026-10-14",
"repository": "MPT-BA official website",
"url_or_catalog_reference": "https://www.prt5.mpt.mp.br/informe-se/noticias-do-mpt-ba/2777-novelis-e-condenada-em-r-20-milhoes-por-expor-trabalhadores-ao-amianto",
"source_class": "government_report",
"primary_source_status": "primary_for_claim",
"accessed_date": "2026-10-21",
"source_notes": "P-OFFICIAL: Primary for MPT’s dated account. Neither the full sentence nor employer exhibits or Ministry of Labor data were obtained. MPT is the prosecuting party, not an independent adjudicator."
},
{
"source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-closure-announcement-20101206",
"title": "Novelis to Close Aluminum Smelter in Aratu, Brazil",
"author_or_issuing_body": "Novelis Inc.",
"publication_date": "2010-12-06",
"repository": "Novelis investor relations",
"url_or_catalog_reference": "source under hygiene review",
"source_class": "other_primary",
"primary_source_status": "primary_for_claim",
"accessed_date": "2026-10-21",
"source_notes": "P-COMPANY: Company-authored announcement. Planned cessation by 31 December 2010 is not itself proof of completed closure; the later filing provides completion wording."
},
{
"source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-annual-report-2012",
"title": "Novelis Inc. Form 10-K, fiscal year ended March 31, 2012",
"author_or_issuing_body": "Novelis Inc.",
"publication_date": "2012",
"repository": "Novelis investor relations, SEC filing accession 0001193125-12-245969",
"url_or_catalog_reference": "source under hygiene review",
"source_class": "other_primary",
"primary_source_status": "primary_for_claim",
"accessed_date": "2026-10-21",
"source_notes": "P-COMPANY: Original company filing; Item 1, Business, South America identifies Aratu with Candeias and says it closed in December 2010. Fiscal 2011 is not calendar 2011."
},
{
"source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-trt5-dismissals-20110819",
"title": "TRT-BA julga abusiva despedida coletiva de 350 trabalhadores em Candeias",
"author_or_issuing_body": "Lázaro Britto, Ascom TRT5",
"publication_date": "2011-08-19",
"repository": "Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 5ª Região",
"url_or_catalog_reference": "https://trt5.jus.br/noticias/trt-ba-julga-abusiva-despedida-coletiva-350-trabalhadores-candeias",
"source_class": "government_report",
"primary_source_status": "primary_for_claim",
"accessed_date": "2026-10-21",
"source_notes": "P-OFFICIAL: Official account of separate collective-dismissal case 0000006-61.2011.5.05.0000 DC; not an asbestos judgment. “December of last year” in the dated August 2011 account points to December 2010."
},
{
"source_id": "src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-djen-notice-20261001",
"title": "DJEN sentence notification, publication no. 119, ACPCiv 0000683-93.2023.5.05.0122",
"author_or_issuing_body": "TRT5 / Diário de Justiça Eletrônico Nacional",
"publication_date": "2026-10-01",
"repository": "Official PJe communications service",
"url_or_catalog_reference": "https://comunicaapi.pje.jus.br/api/v1/comunicacao/DLz5neGX643JtQ4UGT73ww1Rdy4gaO/certidao",
"source_class": "court_record",
"primary_source_status": "primary_for_claim",
"accessed_date": "2026-10-21",
"source_notes": "P-COURT-NOTICE: Notice availability date, not inferred signature date or legal publication date. Identifies Sentence ID e485967 and judge; the accessible notice does not reproduce the sentence’s dispositive text."
}
],
"provenance": {
"record_version": "0.1.0-draft",
"last_verified_date": "2026-10-21",
"record_verification_status": "pending_primary_review",
"drafted_by": "Manus AI",
"review_status": "draft_not_editorially_reviewed",
"change_log": [
{
"version": "0.1.0-draft",
"date": "2026-10-21",
"change_summary": "Initial private Tier 2 record: official MPT source gate met; full sentence unavailable. Corrected rolling-plant description, retained operating/workforce conflicts, separated urgent recall and finality-dependent duties, added reported company response; no publication or registry change."
}
]
},
"open_questions": [
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-registered-id",
"field_path": "/facility_id",
"question": "Does an existing approved facility ID already identify this site?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "All proposed IDs are private draft candidates; registry not accessed.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Current facility registry and owner-confirmed schema contract"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-chronology",
"field_path": "/identity/operating_periods",
"question": "What explains MPT’s 1970–2011 period versus December 2010 closure in the company filing?",
"status": "conflict_to_resolve",
"reason": "Both statements are retained. Fiscal 2011 and calendar 2011 must not be conflated.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Sentence, operating permits and contemporaneous closure/employment records"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-coordinates",
"field_path": "/identity/location/value/coordinates",
"question": "What surveyed location and historic plant boundary should be used?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "No coordinate or parcel source reviewed.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Historic land/permit record"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-materials",
"field_path": "/exposure/asbestos_products_materials",
"question": "Which products, materials and fiber types were used, and when?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "Official release names asbestos presence/use but no specific products or types.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Original PPRA, service orders, PPPs and material inventories"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-trades",
"field_path": "/exposure/trades_occupations",
"question": "Which named trades and tasks had documented asbestos conditions?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "Only broad furnace/warehouse/other-sector discussion available.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Dated occupational profiles and job-task records"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-pathway",
"field_path": "/exposure/pathways",
"question": "Are route, tasks, airborne fibers or individual doses documented?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "Only potential cross-sector dust mechanism; no measured dose.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Original workplace measurements and employer exhibits"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-peak",
"field_path": "/exposure/peak_periods",
"question": "Is there a source-defined high-exposure period?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "Documented presence period is not a peak.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Dated task-specific exposure measurements"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-sentence",
"field_path": "/evidence",
"question": "Can the full sentence e485967 and its exhibits be obtained?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "Official release and original notice obtained; validation access blocked.",
"next_evidence_sought": "https://pje.trt5.jus.br/pjekz/validacao/26092923420144400000126385741?instancia=1"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-current-procedure",
"field_path": "/evidence",
"question": "Has an appeal or stay been filed, or has finality been certified?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "Eleven public communications are not a complete docket. Current status undetermined.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Complete official docket, appeal/stay orders and finality certificate"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-remedy-trigger",
"field_path": "/evidence",
"question": "What event starts the urgent 60-working-day recall interval, and what are each later duty’s operative triggers?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "No due date inferred. Official release distinguishes urgent recall from other finality-dependent obligations.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Full dispositive text, service/notification record and subsequent orders"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-surveillance",
"field_path": "/evidence",
"question": "What is the exact covered worker population and examination protocol through 2040?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "End year only; no denominator, exact terminal date or protocol.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Judgment and surveillance implementation plan"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-deaths",
"field_path": "/evidence",
"question": "Do the earlier individual decisions establish the two reported deaths?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "Work-order two-death detail remains UNVERIFIED — REPORTED; reviewed official account and press sources describe cases, not an explicit death count.",
"next_evidence_sought": "Individual court decisions and dated explicit death documentation"
},
{
"question_id": "oq-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-review",
"field_path": "/provenance/review_status",
"question": "What dated editorial, legal and occupational-health review will precede release?",
"status": "open",
"reason": "Manus drafted; ANCHOR, CLEO, Charles and specialist reviews not yet recorded.",
"next_evidence_sought": "ANCHOR edit, CLEO QA, appropriate subject review, Charles publication gate"
}
]
}
```
## Facility history and the collective action
Novelis’s former Aratu facility in Candeias, Bahia, was a **primary-aluminum smelter**. The company’s 6 December 2010 announcement identifies that process and says operations would cease by 31 December 2010. Its later Form 10-K expressly identifies Aratu with Candeias and states that the facility closed in December 2010. The description of Novelis as a rolling-products company does not establish that this particular plant was a rolling operation. [2] [3]
MPT-BA’s 14 October 2026 account identifies Novelis do Brasil Ltda. as the former Alcan – Alumínio do Brasil Ltda. and describes an activity period of 1970–2011. That endpoint conflicts with the company’s December 2010 closure statement. An official TRT5 notice dated 19 August 2011 also describes closure the previous December, followed by litigation concerning about 350 collective dismissals. This record retains the source-specific dates; it does not silently normalize a 1970–2011 operating range or infer why the institutional accounts differ. [1] [3] [4]
According to MPT-BA, a union complaint led to its investigation in 2018, and the public civil action had been pending since 2023. The official court publication identifies **ACPCiv 0000683-93.2023.5.05.0122**, MPT versus Novelis, and **Sentence ID e485967**, signed in the notice by Judge **Ana Terra Fagundes Oliveira Cruz**. The notice was available on 1 October 2026. That is not an independently established sentence-signing date; 14 October is the MPT announcement date, not a verified ruling date. The accessible court notice does not reproduce the full decision. [1] [5]
## What the employer documents establish in MPT’s account
**OFFICIAL RELEASE CONFIRMED — JUDGMENT AND EXHIBITS NOT REVIEWED.** MPT says the sentence relied on documents produced by the company itself: the *Programa de Prevenção de Riscos Ambientais* (PPRA), risk-prevention programs; service orders; and the *Perfil Profissiográfico Previdenciário* (PPP), occupational profiles used for social-security purposes. The release describes them as demonstrating asbestos presence and use at the Candeias unit. The original documents, dates, page references and detailed contents have not been obtained. No product brands, fiber types, material quantities or task-specific exposure measurements are supplied by this record. [1]
MPT attributes the presence period—**from the 1970s through at least 2009**—and an approximately **350–400 employee** workforce to Ministry of Labor data discussed by the judge. The underlying Ministry records are not reviewed. “At least 2009” is a minimum endpoint, not proof that asbestos use or exposure stopped then. The workforce range has no stated census date or cumulative employment denominator and is not an exposed cohort. The company’s separate closure announcement expected about 300 affected employees, while the 2011 TRT5 dismissal account used about 350. Those are differently described counts, not interchangeable estimates of all exposed people. [1] [2] [4]
The release says the judge discussed employees near furnaces or in the warehouse and observed that dust could affect other sectors. That supports a source-described potential cross-sector dust mechanism, not a measured concentration or a finding that every employee received the same exposure. The documented presence window is not entered as a peak-exposure period. [1]
MPT also reports that the sentence identified **failures in monitoring exposed workers**, including the absence of periodic environmental assessments, medical examinations and transmission of information to SUS. These are MPT’s summary of the court’s findings; the underlying monitoring records have not been reviewed. [1]
## Collective damages and medical-surveillance obligations
**OFFICIAL RELEASE CONFIRMED — FULL OPERATIVE TERMS NOT REVIEWED.** MPT reports a first-instance order for **R$20 million in collective moral damages**, *dano moral coletivo*, in its public civil action. This is a collective award, not a confirmed collected remedy, a per-worker payment or a compensation allocation. MPT states that the R$20 million is to be allocated under the criteria the Supremo Tribunal Federal set in **ADPF 944**; this record does not describe those criteria or identify any recipient. [1] The release said an appeal remained possible. Current appeal, stay and finality status are undetermined; the limited public communications search is not a complete docket. [1] [5]
The medical orders have different described triggers:
- **Urgent recall:** MPT says the company must recall former employees for medical examinations within **up to 60 working days**, paying travel, food and lodging expenses. The release expressly distinguishes this urgent recall from obligations that await final judgment. It does not establish the triggering notification/service event needed to calculate a due date. The record therefore does not state that recall begins only after finality, that 60 calendar days applies, or that a deadline has expired. [1]
- **Annual examinations:** MPT reports annual medical examinations of former employees **through 2040**. Read with the release’s subsequent finality paragraph, these later duties are described as taking effect after *trânsito em julgado*—when further appeals are no longer available. The full sentence is needed to confirm the exact coverage, protocol, end date within 2040, and relationship between urgent initial examinations and annual surveillance. No compliance record has been reviewed. [1]
- **Lifetime care:** MPT says Novelis must fund health care for the lifetime of former employees diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases supported by a medical report, after final judgment. This is a medically conditioned duty, not unconditional lifetime care for everyone who worked at the plant. The **2040 examination endpoint does not limit the separately described lifetime-care obligation**. Exact covered services require the operative text. [1]
- **Notification and health-system records:** MPT describes issuance of a *Comunicação de Acidente de Trabalho* (CAT) for asbestos-related disease cases and forwarding former-worker information to Brazil’s *Sistema Único de Saúde* (SUS), with each worker’s express consent. The release places the non-recall obligations after finality. Transmission, issued CATs and implementation are not established here. [1] [10]
The enduring reference value is this specific combination of a prosecutor-filed public civil action, a collective moral-damages award, urgent recall, a defined surveillance end year and separately conditioned lifetime care. The record describes the Brazilian proceeding; it does not assert that no comparable remedy or mechanism exists in the United States. [1]
## Two earlier individual cases are not population evidence
MPT reports that earlier individual actions brought by the families of two former workers had recognized a relationship between asbestos exposure and pleural mesothelioma. Neither individual decision was obtained. The official account and reviewed contemporary reports describe **two cases**, but do not explicitly establish that both workers died. The assignment’s two-death detail therefore remains **UNVERIFIED — REPORTED; not established by the reviewed source set**, rather than being promoted to a mortality figure. No population-level rate, total disease burden or causal conclusion for other people is inferred. [1] [7] [8] [9] [10]
## Company response and current procedural limits
**S-REPORTED — dated company response through a news outlet.** In a report published on **16 October 2026 at 12:10**, Rádio Nacional/EBC said Novelis told its production team that, because the case was ongoing, any statements would be made exclusively in the case record. That is a reported procedural response, not a denial, admission, promised appeal or merits defense. It supersedes a blanket statement that Novelis had not commented: G1’s 14 October report had only said it was trying to contact the company. No later company-authored substantive response was found in the bounded newsroom/RSS check through 21 October; that finding is search-limited. [6] [7]
As of the court check at **2026-10-21 14:11:15 UTC**, the official communications service returned 11 matching communications, the newest being the 1 October sentence notice. The sentence-validation and full case-consultation routes were blocked by location/IP restrictions. The absence of an appeal entry in that communications response does **not** establish that no appeal or stay exists, nor that the judgment is final. No award payment, medical-surveillance implementation or remedial completion is claimed. [5]
## Open questions for ANCHOR
Obtain the full sentence and current docket; add the ADPF 944 allocation and the monitoring-failures finding (both added to the prose in the ANCHOR edit of 26 October 2026, both verbatim in [1]) to the structured claims block under the owner’s ID scheme; verify each remedy trigger and worker scope; reconcile the 2010 closure with MPT’s 2011 endpoint; obtain the employer exhibits and original Ministry figures; verify the two reported deaths from individual-case documents; reconcile proposed IDs with the registry. ANCHOR editing, CLEO final QA, appropriate legal and occupational-health review, and Charles’s publication gate remain outstanding.
## References
[1]: https://www.prt5.mpt.mp.br/informe-se/noticias-do-mpt-ba/2777-novelis-e-condenada-em-r-20-milhoes-por-expor-trabalhadores-ao-amianto "MPT-BA ASCOM, 14 October 2026: Novelis asbestos judgment account"
[2]: source under hygiene review "Novelis, 6 December 2010: announced Aratu primary-aluminum smelter closure"
[3]: source under hygiene review "Novelis Form 10-K for fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, Item 1: Aratu facility in Candeias closed December 2010"
[4]: https://trt5.jus.br/noticias/trt-ba-julga-abusiva-despedida-coletiva-350-trabalhadores-candeias "TRT5 Ascom, 19 August 2011: separate collective-dismissal proceeding at Candeias"
[5]: https://comunicaapi.pje.jus.br/api/v1/comunicacao/DLz5neGX643JtQ4UGT73ww1Rdy4gaO/certidao "Official DJEN/PJe sentence notice, available 1 October 2026, publication no. 119"
[6]: source under hygiene review "Madson Euler, Radioagência Nacional/EBC, 16 October 2026: reported Novelis procedural response"
[7]: source under hygiene review "G1 BA, 14 October 2026, 21:23: first reporting and attempted company contact"
[8]: source under hygiene review "Bahia Notícias, 14 October 2026, 15:40: attributed judgment reporting"
[9]: source under hygiene review "Camaçari Notícias/CN1, 14 October 2026, 15:00: attributed judgment reporting"
[10]: source under hygiene review "Francis Vasconcellos, Portal Salvador FM, 14 October 2026, 13:54: attributed judgment reporting"
## ANCHOR edit — 26 October 2026
Editor pass for #101485 (optimization, links, citations, structure, compliance; voice unchanged). Every figure the brief flagged was re-measured at the MPT-BA release on 26 October 2026 (200, 38,666 B): “de 1970 a 2011”, “aproximadamente 350 a 400 empregados”, “desde a década de 1970 até, pelo menos, 2009”, PPRA / ordem de serviço / PPP, “fornos ou no almoxarifado”, “R$20 milhões”, “até 60 dias úteis”, “até 2040”, “assistência à saúde por toda a vida”, CAT and SUS with “autorização expressa”, “trânsito em julgado”, and “casos de mesotelioma de pleura envolvendo dois ex-empregados” (cases, not deaths). Fabricated-sentence control: 0. The company announcement (“primary aluminum smelter … by December 31, 2010 … approximately 300 employees”), the FY2012 10-K (“we closed our Aratu facility in Candeias, Brazil in December 2010”), TRT5 (“cerca de 350 empregados”; closure “em dezembro do ano passado”) and the EBC procedural response (“exclusivamente nos autos”, 16/10/2026 12:10) were all re-read verbatim. **Two additions, both from [1]:** the ADPF 944 allocation sentence and the monitoring-failures finding, labelled as MPT’s account. **Reach limit:** reference [5] (DJEN notice) returns HTTP 403 to ANCHOR’s network on 26 October, so it remains Manus-attested (fetched 21 October) and was not re-read. Links [1]–[4] and [6]–[10] resolve 200. The court-status check remains as of 21 October 2026, 14:11:15 UTC; no newer court check was possible from this network.