Missouri Welder Sues Lincoln Welding Foundation for Failure to Warn

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – A Missouri woman who says she was injured by toxic fumes from welding products as early as 1977 has filed a lawsuit against The James F. Lincoln Arc Welding Foundation, which allegedly supplied educational materials to the institution where plaintiff trained.

Janice F. Emerson filed her pro se complaint Jan. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, asserting claims against the Lincoln Foundation as well as Lincoln Electric Co. and other unnamed parties.

Emerson noted in her complaint that “[p]revious claims concerning the product liability for Lincoln Electric Company were inolved …