With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration signaling its increased attention to workers’ exposure to crystalline silica, and the plaintiff bar evidently in search of new subjects for “toxic tort” claims, there is...more
We recently posted an article about whether silica exposure claims might emerge as the next toxic tort. A particular focus of that article was the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) clearly increasing...more
With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) signaling its increased attention to workers' exposure to crystalline silica, and the plaintiffs' bar evidently in search of new subjects for "toxic tort" claims,...more
12/12/2013
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Construction Workers ,
Contractors ,
Hazardous Substances ,
Land Developers ,
Multidistrict Litigation ,
OSHA ,
Safety Precautions ,
Silica ,
Subcontractors ,
Toxic Exposure