William Montgomery went to work for John Deere & Co in 1966 In 1973 he was transferred to the Deere foundry in Waterloo.

William Montgomery went to work for John Deere & Co in 1966 In 1973 he was transferred to the Deere foundry in Waterloo, Iowa. In 1989 he was assigned to work in the foundry's safety department where he was responsible for administering various programs including industrial hygiene and safety.

In 1992 Montgomery was reassigned to the environmental compliance area where he prepared monthly discharge monitoring reports for submission to the Iowa Dept of Natural Resources (IDNR) and the City of Waterloo, as well as other environmental reports. Claiming that Montgomery's

...