Allen v. Standard Mineral Co.

HILL, Judge.

Plaintiff is a forty-one year old male with a high school education whose work experience has been limited to manual labor. Plaintiff worked for defendant-employer in its Robbinsville plant for approximately twenty years, the last fourteen years continuously. Defendant-employer mines pyrophyllite which contains a great deal of silica. As a result of being exposed to silica dust in defendant-employer’s plant, plaintiff has silicosis. Silicosis is an occupational disease in which scar tissue is formed around silica dust deposited in the lungs causing irreversible lung damage.

Plaintif…