The underlying lawsuits – now coordinated in California – embrace greater than 260 “Stone Countertop Employee Silicosis Instances.” In accordance with the complaints, plaintiffs allege publicity to “stone mud containing silica and different toxins and carcinogens, in addition to synthetic stone mud containing respirable crystalline silica (together with quartz and cristobalite), metals (together with aluminum, antimony, arsenic, chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, nickel, titanium, tungsten, and vanadium) and unstable natural compounds from polymeric resins and different binders (together with phthalic anhydride, benzene, ethylbenzene, and toluene) from this work, which prompted plaintiff’s lung illness characterised by pulmonary nodules, silicosis, pulmonary fibrosis, progressive huge fibrosis, and different types of lung harm.” The complaints additional allege that these exposures resulted in “substantial medical therapy, together with hospitalizations and surgical procedures, and can want lung transplantation.”
