Sand Supplier, Not Respirator Defendants, Off Hook for Silica Related Injury

MADISON, Wis. - Whether a former foundry worker's respiratory equipment was defective at the time he thought it was protecting him from suffering any additional lung damage as a result of his silica exposure is a question of fact for a jury to decide, a Wisconsin appeals court has held. Baldwin, et al., v. Badger Mining Corp., et al., No. 02-1197 (Wis. App. Ct., District One).

For the second time in three months, the state's First District Court of Appeals reversed an award of summary judgment to respiratory defendants who had argued that a plaintiff's silicosis claims were barred by …