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# Novelis Candeias — sources and claim ledger
**WO-ATLAS-20261021-NOVELIS · v0.1.0-draft · As-of 21 October 2026 · Author: Manus AI · Tier 2, draft only.** Companion record: `novelis-candeias-facility-record.md`. The court-status check ended at **14:11:15 UTC**. No full judgment was obtained; the official MPT-BA release meets the work order’s alternative primary-source gate. It is not substituted for the sentence or its exhibits.
## Evidence grades
**P-COURT-NOTICE:** An original official court publication directly reviewed. Here it establishes notice identity, case, judge and sentence ID; it is not the complete judgment or docket.
**P-OFFICIAL:** An official MPT-BA or TRT5 release directly reviewed. Primary for its issuing institution’s dated account. MPT is the prosecuting party; its summary of judicial findings does not equal independent review of the sentence, company exhibits, Ministry dataset or earlier individual judgments.
**P-COMPANY:** An original company announcement or filing directly reviewed. Primary for its own facility description, historical statement or announced action, not independent occupational-health verification.
**S-REPORTED:** Dated reporting directly read. Quotations remain attributed to the outlet. Reproducing MPT prose in several publications is not independent primary corroboration.
**LEAD-UNVERIFIED:** A work-order detail or discovery lead not established in the reviewed source set. It cannot support an affirmative mortality or legal claim. The exact label **UNVERIFIED — REPORTED** is used for retained secondary-only details whose original support was not obtained.
These grades describe provenance, not facility severity or editorial tier. `verified` means the specified primary source was checked for that statement, not that the facility is scientifically verified. `pending_primary_review` keeps official summary-derived judicial figures distinct from reviewed original decisions. `conflicted` retains source disagreement. All IDs below are candidates pending comparison with existing registry IDs; none was inserted into a live registry.
## Primary-source ledger
### [1] `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`
**Document:** Novelis é condenada em R$20 milhões por expor trabalhadores ao amianto. **Original author/issuer:** ASCOM, Ministério Público do Trabalho na Bahia / PRT 5ª Região. **Document date:** 2026-10-14. **Repository:** MPT-BA official website. **Accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL. **Class:** `government_report`. **Scope:** 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. [1]
### [2] `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-closure-announcement-20101206`
**Document:** Novelis to Close Aluminum Smelter in Aratu, Brazil. **Original author/issuer:** Novelis Inc.. **Document date:** 2010-12-06. **Repository:** Novelis investor relations. **Accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Grade:** P-COMPANY. **Class:** `other_primary`. **Scope:** Company-authored announcement. Planned cessation by 31 December 2010 is not itself proof of completed closure; the later filing provides completion wording. [2]
### [3] `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-annual-report-2012`
**Document:** Novelis Inc. Form 10-K, fiscal year ended March 31, 2012. **Original author/issuer:** Novelis Inc.. **Document date:** 2012. **Repository:** Novelis investor relations, SEC filing accession 0001193125-12-245969. **Accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Grade:** P-COMPANY. **Class:** `other_primary`. **Scope:** 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. [3]
### [4] `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-trt5-dismissals-20110819`
**Document:** TRT-BA julga abusiva despedida coletiva de 350 trabalhadores em Candeias. **Original author/issuer:** Lázaro Britto, Ascom TRT5. **Document date:** 2011-08-19. **Repository:** Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 5ª Região. **Accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL. **Class:** `government_report`. **Scope:** 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. [4]
### [5] `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-djen-notice-20261001`
**Document:** DJEN sentence notification, publication no. 119, ACPCiv 0000683-93.2023.5.05.0122. **Original author/issuer:** TRT5 / Diário de Justiça Eletrônico Nacional. **Document date:** 2026-10-01. **Repository:** Official PJe communications service. **Accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Grade:** P-COURT-NOTICE. **Class:** `court_record`. **Scope:** 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. [5]
## Claim-to-source mapping
### C01 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-name-001
MPT identifies the defendant and Candeias unit as Novelis do Brasil Ltda. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-name-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Opening paragraph and paragraph beginning “A decisão reconheceu”. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** Institutional naming verified; exact corporate title, title to property and complete succession chain not independently audited.
### C02 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-former-name-001
MPT describes Novelis as the former Alcan – Alumínio do Brasil Ltda. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-former-name-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Paragraph beginning “A decisão reconheceu”. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** Former name confirmed in MPT account; dates and instruments of legal succession remain unknown.
### C03 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-001
Novelis’s filing identifies its Aratu facility as being in Candeias, Brazil. [3]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-annual-report-2012`. **Grade:** P-COMPANY; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Printed p.14, Item 1, Business, South America; paragraph beginning “In May 2009”. **Document as-of:** 2012-03-31; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** No surveyed coordinates, parcel boundaries or present land-use record reviewed; Bahia/metropolitan location and industrial-area designation have companion official-source evidence rows.
### C04 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-facility-type-001
Novelis identifies Aratu as a primary-aluminum smelter, not as a rolling plant. [2]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-facility-type-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-closure-announcement-20101206`. **Grade:** P-COMPANY; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Opening paragraph and closing operations paragraph before About Novelis. **Document as-of:** 2010-12-06; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** Company’s primary facility description. The group’s rolling business must not be substituted for this plant’s process; a complete historic process inventory is unavailable.
### C05 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-activity-range-mpt-001
MPT’s 2026 account describes the unit’s period of activity as 1970–2011. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-activity-range-mpt-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `conflicted`. **Locator:** Paragraph beginning “O MPT investiga”. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** 1970–2011 as described by MPT. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** Conflicts with company filing’s December 2010 closure and TRT5’s 2011 account. Starting year is MPT-reported only; do not normalize an uninterrupted operating range.
### C06 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-closure-company-001
Novelis’s FY2012 filing states: “we closed our Aratu facility in Candeias, Brazil in December 2010.” [3]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-closure-company-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-annual-report-2012`. **Grade:** P-COMPANY; **verification:** `conflicted`. **Locator:** Printed p.14, Item 1, Business, South America; paragraph beginning “In May 2009”. **Document as-of:** 2012-03-31; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** December 2010. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** Verified as company’s completed-closure statement. Contradicts MPT’s 2011 endpoint; no reason for the discrepancy is established.
### C07 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-dismissal-history-001
TRT5’s August 2011 account describes about 350 dismissals after closure of the Novelis factory in Candeias’s Centro Industrial de Aratu in December of the previous year. [4]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-dismissal-history-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-trt5-dismissals-20110819`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Opening paragraph; footer Ascom TRT5, 19.08.2011; case 0000006-61.2011.5.05.0000 DC. **Document as-of:** 2011-08-19; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Approximately 350 employees dismissed. **Period:** Closure reported December 2010; dismissal litigation 2011. **Units:** employees, approximate. **Limitations:** Separate labor-dismissal proceeding, not the asbestos action. Approximate dismissed workers are not a cumulative exposed population.
### C08 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-workforce-mpt-001
MPT attributes an approximately 350–400 employee workforce to Ministry of Labor data discussed by the judge. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-workforce-mpt-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Final paragraph beginning “Com base em dados do Ministério do Trabalho”. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Facility workforce as described; not a study cohort. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** employees, approximate range. **Limitations:** 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.
### C09 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-closure-workforce-company-001
Novelis’s 6 December 2010 announcement said closure would affect approximately 300 employees. [2]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-closure-workforce-company-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-closure-announcement-20101206`. **Grade:** P-COMPANY; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Opening paragraph. **Document as-of:** 2010-12-06; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Employees expected to be affected by announced closure. **Period:** Announcement dated 2010-12-06. **Units:** employees, approximate. **Limitations:** Prospective affected-employee count, not the same defined metric as MPT’s workforce range or TRT5’s collective dismissals; counts not reconciled.
### C10 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-asbestos-period-001
MPT states that Ministry of Labor data discussed by the judge placed asbestos at the unit from the 1970s through at least 2009. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-asbestos-period-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Final paragraph beginning “Com base em dados do Ministério do Trabalho”. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** 1970s–at least 2009. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** 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. 2009 is a minimum documented endpoint, not an established cessation date or individual exposure duration.
### C11 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-employer-documents-001
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. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-employer-documents-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Paragraph beginning “Segundo a sentença”. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** 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.
### C12 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-work-groups-001
MPT says the judge discussed workers near furnaces or in the warehouse and that asbestos dust could affect employees in other sectors. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-work-groups-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Last two sentences of final paragraph. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Workers near furnaces, warehouse employees and other sectors. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** 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. Broad work groups only; no named trade-specific exposure estimate or proof that every employee was exposed.
### C13 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-dust-pathway-001
MPT’s account describes potential movement of dust affecting employees beyond furnace and warehouse areas. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-dust-pathway-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Last sentence of final paragraph. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** 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. Source-described potential mechanism, not measured airborne concentration, release quantity, personal dose or documented route for each worker.
### C14 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-case-identity-001
The official notice identifies ACPCiv 0000683-93.2023.5.05.0122, Ministério Público do Trabalho v. Novelis do Brasil Ltda., SC Candeias – Conhecimento. [5]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-case-identity-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-djen-notice-20261001`. **Grade:** P-COURT-NOTICE; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Publication no.119; header, case number and party labels. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-01; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** A sentence-notification record, not the full case docket or merits decision. The general Candeias labor-court description is retained without choosing a numbered court division.
### C15 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-judge-sentence-id-001
The official notice names Ana Terra Fagundes Oliveira Cruz, Juíza do Trabalho, and Sentence ID e485967. [5]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-judge-sentence-id-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-djen-notice-20261001`. **Grade:** P-COURT-NOTICE; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Notification of Sentença ID e485967; signature block. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-01; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** 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.
### C16 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-collective-damages-001
MPT’s 14 October release reports R$20,000,000 in dano moral coletivo ordered against Novelis in the public civil action. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-collective-damages-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Opening paragraph. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Collective remedy in the MPT-filed action. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** BRL, collective moral-damages award. **Limitations:** 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.
### C17 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-first-instance-status-001
MPT’s release calls the sentence first instance and says an appeal remained possible. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-first-instance-status-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Opening procedural paragraph and Assistência vitalícia paragraph. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** 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.
### C18 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-urgent-recall-001
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. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-urgent-recall-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Paragraph beginning “Essa é uma decisão”; sentence beginning “A decisão determinou em caráter de urgência”. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Former employees covered by the order; exact eligibility list unavailable. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** working days, maximum interval of 60. **Limitations:** 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.
### C19 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-annual-exams-001
MPT reports annual medical examinations for former employees through 2040. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-annual-exams-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Paragraph beginning “Essa é uma decisão”; sentence beginning “A Novelis terá de fazer”. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Former employees covered by the order; exact scope unavailable. **Period:** Annual examinations through 2040. **Units:** annual frequency; end year 2040. **Limitations:** 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.
### C20 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-lifetime-care-001
MPT reports lifetime health-care funding for former employees diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases supported by a medical report, after trânsito em julgado. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-lifetime-care-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Assistência vitalícia paragraph. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Former employees with medically documented asbestos-related disease. **Period:** Lifetime; commencement described as after finality. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** 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.
### C21 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-cat-duty-001
MPT reports CAT issuance for cases of asbestos-related disease. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-cat-duty-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Paragraph beginning “Essa é uma decisão”; CAT clause. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Asbestos-related disease cases within order scope. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** 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.
### C22 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-sus-duty-001
MPT reports forwarding former-worker data to SUS only with each worker’s express consent. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-sus-duty-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Paragraph beginning “Essa é uma decisão”; SUS clause. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Former workers who expressly authorize transfer. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** 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.
### C23 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-prior-individual-cases-001
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. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-prior-individual-cases-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Paragraph beginning “Segundo a sentença”; final two sentences. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Two former employees identified through individual litigation, not a sampled population. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** 2 former-worker cases; 2 earlier individual actions. **Limitations:** 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.
### C24 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-investigation-timeline-001
MPT says its investigation began in 2018 after a workers’ union complaint and the civil action had been pending since 2023. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-investigation-timeline-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `pending_primary_review`. **Locator:** Opening procedural paragraph and paragraph beginning “O MPT investiga”. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Investigation 2018; action since 2023. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** Official institutional chronology, not an independently reviewed investigation file; specific filing and complaint dates not supplied.
### C25 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-001
MPT-BA places the unit in Candeias, in the Salvador metropolitan area, Bahia. [1]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-mpt-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-mpt-ba-20261014`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Paragraph beginning “A decisão reconheceu”; MPT-BA issuing authority. **Document as-of:** 2026-10-14; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** Geographic identification in official Bahia institutional account, not a surveyed parcel.
### C26 — clm-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-001
TRT5 places the Candeias factory in Centro Industrial de Aratu. [4]
**Evidence:** `ev-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-location-trt-001` → `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-trt5-dismissals-20110819`. **Grade:** P-OFFICIAL; **verification:** `verified`. **Locator:** Opening paragraph. **Document as-of:** 2011-08-19; **accessed:** 2026-10-21. **Population:** Not supplied / not applicable; no denominator inferred. **Period:** Not supplied / not applicable. **Units:** Not applicable; no quantitative measurement supplied. **Limitations:** Historical industrial-area designation, not a precise property boundary or current use.
## Reported-only claims and checked journalism
### R01 — Company’s procedural response, 16 October 2026
**Source ID:** `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-ebc-response-20261016`. **Grade:** S-REPORTED. Madson Euler, Rádio Nacional/EBC; production Luciene Cruz; published 16 October 2026 at 12:10; accessed 21 October. Locator: final paragraph beginning “Em contato com a produção da Rádio Nacional.” [6]
> “Em contato com a produção da Rádio Nacional, a Novelis, antiga Alcan – Alumínio do Brasil Ltda, informou que por se tratar de processo judicial em andamento, eventuais manifestações serão realizadas exclusivamente nos autos.” — Rádio Nacional/EBC. [6]
The draft carries EBC’s attributed response: statements would be made exclusively in the case record because the matter was ongoing. It is not a company-authored release, admission, denial or confirmation that an appeal was filed. A bounded company newsroom/RSS check through 21 October found no later substantive company-authored response; it cannot establish silence everywhere.
### R02 — First-report contact status
**Source ID:** `src-novelis-candeias-bahia-brazil-g1-20261014`. **Grade:** S-REPORTED. G1 BA, 14 October 2026 at 21:23; accessed 21 October. Locator: action-history paragraph ending “O g1 tenta contato com a empresa.” This establishes that outlet’s contact attempt at first reporting, not an enduring company-no-comment status. EBC’s 16 October report supplies the later procedural response. [7] [6]
### R03 — Two reported deaths: UNVERIFIED — REPORTED
The assignment described two pleural-mesothelioma deaths. The official MPT release and the four named 14 October reports reviewed—G1, Bahia Notícias, CN1 and Portal Salvador FM—describe two former-worker cases and earlier actions by their families, but do not explicitly establish a two-death count. No original individual decision, death record or explicit supporting report was obtained. **Grade:** LEAD-UNVERIFIED for deaths; P-OFFICIAL for MPT’s account of two cases and earlier causal findings. The draft states the distinction and does not compute a mortality measure. [1] [7] [8] [9] [10]
### R04 — Medical officer through 2040
Bahia Notícias, CN1 and Portal Salvador FM report a duty to maintain an occupational physician through 2040. This detail is not stated in the retrieved MPT release or accessible court notice. **Grade:** S-REPORTED; **UNVERIFIED — REPORTED** against original judgment. It is omitted from the core facility record rather than added as an established term. [8] [9] [10]
### R05 — U.S. dollar conversion
The assignment’s approximately US$3.9 million conversion has no dated exchange rate or conversion method in the reviewed primary release. It is **UNVERIFIED — REPORTED** and omitted from the record. The award is retained in its original currency: R$20 million / BRL. No financial conversion performed. [1]
### R06 — No asserted U.S. equivalence claim
The requested “no U.S. equivalent” characterization is not established by the reviewed Brazilian documents or a comparative legal analysis. It is omitted. The draft instead describes the actual Brazilian collective-action and surveillance mechanism. This is an editorial exclusion, not a conclusion about U.S. law.
### R07 — Source-specific press dates and independence
Bahia Notícias: Redação, 14 October 2026, 15:40; CN1: Camaçari Notícias, 14 October, 15:00; Portal Salvador FM: Francis Vasconcellos, 14 October, 13:54. All accessed 21 October. These reports largely reproduce the MPT account and are graded S-REPORTED, not independent original judgments. Their agreement does not upgrade the underlying evidence. G1 rounds recall to “60 dias”; the official source specifies **60 dias úteis** and supplies the urgent/finality distinction. The draft uses the official wording. [8] [9] [10] [7] [1]
## Court retrieval and procedural-status boundary
The official query below returned **11 public communications** for the exact case, with the newest a 1 October 2026 sentence notice: `id 742929476`, publication no. `119`, hash `DLz5neGX643JtQ4UGT73ww1Rdy4gaO`, Sentence ID `e485967`. The certificate is source [5]. The phrase saying the dispositive follows did not yield a reproduced dispositive in the accessible response/certificate. Current appeal, stay, finality and compliance are therefore **undetermined**. A communications search is not a complete docket; no absence claim is drawn from it.
Official case-communications query (source under hygiene review).
The source-provided original-document route is TRT5 sentence validation (source under hygiene review). The check returned CloudFront 403/location blocking; its contents were not read. The official full consultation route (source under hygiene review) was likewise blocked and redirected to the TRT5 access-location page (source under hygiene review), which describes country/IP restrictions. No access control was bypassed, credential requested or inquiry sent. **Cutoff: 2026-10-21T14:11:15Z.**
## Reconciliation, schema and review handoff
The original schema v1 draft of 28 September was recovered through the authorized prior-task history and its private attachment. The Kymore exemplar was also read; the Badia task history was checked for continuity. A later schema stress test proposed changes but used its own nonproduction envelope; no approval of those proposals was found. This package uses the recovered original draft contract, not that test envelope, and makes no claim of compliance with an inaccessible current production schema. Required unknown arrays and JSON-pointer questions remain explicit. The overall record status is `pending_primary_review` and review status is `draft_not_editorially_reviewed`.
No existing permanent ID, current site data or employment time series was changed. Primary source/evidence/claim relationships are checked inside the draft only. The urgent recall is not silently moved behind finality, the award is not payment, the two cases are not a population study, and the company closure count is not an exposure denominator. No remediation status, present land use, patient-level data or individual eligibility is supplied.
**Review pipeline:** Complete draft for ANCHOR → CLEO → Charles, routed by the requesting owner/Trill. Legal terms need Brazilian-law review; clinical/exposure interpretations need appropriate occupational-health expertise. Manus’s source check is not a substitute for either. No named specialist review is claimed; no review task, dispatch or schedule was created.
**Accomplishments ledger handoff — not committed:** GitHub is disabled in this context, no working copy of `manus-vault-bridge` was available, and the ledger’s required header format could not be read. No connector was enabled and no commit or push occurred. Proposed completion text for the authorized owner to place in the prescribed format:
> 2026-10-21 — Manus AI — WO-ATLAS-20261021-NOVELIS: Completed and structurally validated a private Tier 2 Candeias/Aratu facility draft, claim-level source ledger and one-page status note. Obtained the official MPT-BA release and original DJEN sentence notice; corrected the plant classification to primary-aluminum smelter; retained the company’s December 2010 closure versus MPT’s 1970–2011 activity conflict and differing workforce scopes; distinguished urgent 60-working-day recall from finality-dependent surveillance/care, and carried EBC’s dated procedural company response. Full sentence, current appeal/stay/finality, original exhibits and two reported deaths remain unverified. No publication, deployment, merge, public artifact URL or site/main-branch commit. Deliverables: novelis-candeias-facility-record.md; novelis-sources.md; novelis-status-note.md. Ready for ANCHOR → CLEO → Charles.
## 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 verification ledger — 26 October 2026
| Ref | Fetch 2026-10-26 | Verbatim re-read |
|---|---|---|
| [1] MPT-BA release | 200, 38,666 B | “de 1970 a 2011”; “aproximadamente 350 a 400 empregados”; “até, pelo menos, 2009”; PPRA / PPP; “fornos ou no almoxarifado”; “R$20 milhões”; “até 60 dias úteis”; “até 2040”; “por toda a vida”; CAT / SUS “mediante autorização expressa”; “trânsito em julgado”; “dois ex-empregados”. NEW in record: “serão destinados conforme os critérios estabelecidos pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal na ADPF 944”; “falhas no acompanhamento dos trabalhadores expostos, incluindo ausência de avaliações ambientais periódicas, exames médicos e envio de informações ao SUS”. Control 0. |
| [2] Novelis 6 Dec 2010 release | 200 | “primary aluminum smelter in Aratu, Brazil, by December 31, 2010”; “approximately 300 employees” |
| [3] FY2012 10-K | 200, PDF | “we closed our Aratu facility in Candeias, Brazil in December 2010” (printed page not re-confirmed) |
| [4] TRT5 19 Aug 2011 | 200 | “cerca de 350 empregados”; “Em dezembro do ano passado, a empresa encerrou as atividades” |
| [5] DJEN notice | **403** (network/location block) | not re-read; Manus-attested 21 Oct |
| [6] EBC | 200 | “16/10/2026 - 12:10”; “eventuais manifestações serão realizadas exclusivamente nos autos” |
| [7]–[10] press | 200 each | reachability only |