(September 16, 2019, 1:47 PM EDT) -- HANNIBAL, Mo. — Following a four-day bench trial, a federal judge in Missouri on Sept. 12 found that the former owner of a small appliance manufacturing site in Macon, Mo., was liable for 96 percent of trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination at the site, holding that the evidence showed that the contamination occurred in 1983 when a pinhole leak in an above-ground storage tank (AST) was discovered (Cooper Industries LLC v. Spectrum Brands Inc., No. 16-cv-39, E.D. Mo., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155776)....