(October 22, 2019, 2:13 PM EDT) -- HOUSTON — Several former employees of affiliates of a provider of integrated industrial safety services to the petrochemical refining, pipeline and industrial sectors engaged in a scheme to misappropriate the affiliates’ confidential and trade secret information prior to departing the affiliates to accept employment with a competitor in violation of state and federal trade secret misappropriation laws, the provider and its affiliates argue in an Oct. 18 first amended complaint filed in Texas federal court (Total Safety U.S. Inc., et al. v. Code Red Safety & Rental LLC, et al., No. 19-3836, S.D. Texas)....