Plaintiff Wanted Non-Airfed Hood Declared 'Unreasonably Dangerous'

LAUREL, Miss. - A silica plaintiff whose case settled before a scheduled May trial in Mississippi had moved for a declaration, as a matter of law, that the non-airfed hood he wore for sandblasting was unreasonably dangerous. Spratley v. Clark Sand Co., et al., No. 2004-61-CV4 (Miss. Cir. Ct., Jones Cty.).

Larry Sprately filed the partial motion for summary judgment in late March in his Jones County Circuit Court silica case, claiming that courts in Louisiana and Texas previously held that a model used as the basis for the non-airfed hood he wore was also unreasonably dangerous.

Spratley's case was …