Welding Rods: An Emerging Liability Risk
February 1, 2005
| About the Authors **photo-1**John Wyckoff is a Vice President and Mark McBride is a Senior Manager with The CapAnalysis Group, LLC, a consulting affiliate of Howrey Simon Arnold & White. This article is reprinted with permission from Howrey Simon Arnold & White. |
Arc welding produces a fine mist of metal and oxide particles called "welding fume." In the past five years, several thousand lawsuits have been filed alleging that exposure to the metal manganese in welding fumes causes "Parkinsonism," a severe neurological disease similar to Parkinson's disease.
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