O'Connell v. Westinghouse X-Ray Co.

This action is by a surgeon to recover damages for injuries to his fingers, the 'result of burns sustained while he was performing operations on patients under the beam projected by an X-ray machine manufactured by the defendant. Plaintiff has recovered a substantial verdict. _

The plaintiff, an experienced surgeon, on two occasions performed operations on patients (the setting of fractures) under the beam of X-rays projected by a machine manufactured by the defendant. At the times in question the machine was being used for fluoroscopy, which is a technique whereby, for the purposes here…