Defendant: Plaintiff's Lack of Familiarity with Silica Product Dooms ID Effort

LOS ANGELES - A defendant that manufactured mounted points used in the grinding process has moved for summary judgment in a silica case, claiming that the plaintiff's insistence on identifying its product is disingenuous because the product could not possibly been present at his work site. Beltran, et al. v. J.R. Simplot Co., et al., No. BC356257 (Calif. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Cty.).

Modern Abrasive filed the motion Dec. 26 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, arguing that former sandblaster Ancencion Montellano did not even know what a mounted point was when he was asked the question as part of …