Lincoln Electric Co. v. McLemore

CHANDLER, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This case involves a welder’s claim of product liability and failure to warn against Lincoln Electric Company (Lin-*834coin) and the ESAB Group, Inc. (ESAB), manufacturers of welding rods (“Defendants”), for exposure to harmful welding fumes that resulted in his eventual diagnosis of manganism, a neurological disease caused by high exposure to manganese. The plaintiff, Stanley McLemore, alleged that he had used the Defendants’ rods, which contained manganese, to weld materials together.

¶ 2. McLemore filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Copiah County on…