Scrap Metal Workers Suffer Lead Poisoning Due to Alleged Employer Negligence

Case Overview

This case involves a number of Plaintiffs that were exposed to lead dust during their employment at a scrap metal processing facility. The Defendants in this case had a business focused on processing scrap metal and lead-bearing byproducts into refined lead alloys. The process utilized by the Defendants in order to produce these alloys is known to produce lead dust and residue that is dispersed into the air, allowing it to be inhaled by workers. Some of the Plaintiffs have sustained injuries and harm as a result of the direct lead dust and or lead residue brought into their homes, which has contacted their skin, clothing, footwear, vehicles and other personal belongings of family members.

Questions to the Occupational Medicine expert and their responses

Do you have extensive experience diagnosing and treating patients who have been exposed to lead?

I am highly qualified for evaluating lead-related toxicity. I have extensive experience in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of occupational and environmental lead toxicity. I have provided medical surveillance and biological monitoring services to employees, and consulted extensively to lead manufacturing and processing industries (lead oxide flux, metallurgical fire assay, gold and silver mining, lead shot production, battery recycling).

Do you have knowledge of work-related lead exposure cases and patients who have suffered complications and injuries as a result?

In addition, I have been a principal investigator or consultant in numerous environmental pollution cases, including lead. If the company was aware of the dangers posed by its methods, as is indicated in the case summary above, then they were clearly negligent.

About the expert

This highly qualified expert is board certified in occupational and internal medicine and has been practicing for 24+ years. He received his M.D. from Harvard University and completed his residency training in occupational and internal medicine at both Rhode Island Hospital / Brown University and Rutgers Medical School. He also received his M.P.H. in occupational health and toxicology from Rutgers University. He is a fellow at both the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the American College of Physicians and a member of multiple other professional associations, including the Western Occupational and Environmental Medicine Association. He has published 12+ peer-reviewed journal articles and lectures nationwide. Currently, he is the President of a major health and safety compliance technology company and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Occupational Medicine at a major university in California.

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Specialties:

Occupational Medicine