Plaintiff Owen Diaz, an elevator operator who worked for the company between June 2015 and May 2016, sued alleging a hostile work environment and racial harassment, including that “daily racist epithets” such as the n-word were used in the factory, where his son Demetric also worked. The initial suit by Diaz, who is Black, alleged that workers encountered a scene “straight from the Jim Crow era” where workers were subject to frequent racist harassment and supervisors took no action.