Document NGvVEanb4B8qO5V9o92JopDQ8

2 'L--- Li--j Ca U----- j Z?' POST-GAZETTE: Wed., Dec. S, 1984~~ $1.5 million is awarded in asbestos case By Susan MvineHa Poat'Gaan* Staff v.v* Be 9 years ott *7 d, like mot bey! hi* *;*% lx Uk-<I lo roughhoose with Ms fc*r. Bat the itv.ven? Uha-.ior of <e fisher il ' uis chiio led to Rfvaood D. Soitr-'s Ji-iti l: Iztt* when be war just 2> >: oR Sm:V'.> yw^. Ki:. and their thrtt sou* r"< and 2, xoe a v^rdi* to !:,'/ ;;*s rmilioe w Ail`vbea7 -Co'roty C<v.r..w Co'-rt last wer's, .:!:.. ':v de:5A r tL.-t P-nitha 4: :h cs Sept 5, li'cH, we* ;be o? exposure to *v->V* .^-k* lo v&s a `R Smith. whw :** viking pan* time *?i& finiaS^ag bis last year of o;U%c it- Iowa at the Ume of bn death, fr v op near a PPG Iarfss* trie* plant in Pert Allegany, Ife* Keev* County. Hi* tttJcr, Ite/mood L. Smith, worked (hers for /our yean -- first u a "feeder," siitttag opes bit bags of asbestos and turning themlate hopper, and then on tte plant's assembly !&*. Wi*abecame home at the end of a day, his vc-r*i clothes, boots and luKh pail bore the dusty signs of Ms work > was Uovgfat home some of the empty ubsstos sacks, which his wife used to mile curtains for their 8-by-JS-fcs-t trt'Cw. Prom 1M4 through 19W, the Smith family did not know the dan* gen associated with asbestos dost Fifteen yean later,'the forager Smith was diagnosed as baring mesothelioma, a fora of lung can* . cer associated with exposure to as* bestoa dust . The two*week trial before Coo* son Pleas Judge Silvestri Silvestri was the first ``bystander case" in volving asbestos tried in Pennsylva* nia, according to attorney Stanley W. Greenfield, who represented ; Dfc-leoe Smith, now of Allentown, Lehigh County. Greenfield said mesothefcoma "is . known classically to be associated with asbestos exposure." He called sev?o medical experts who testified ateet the retettosship between esiKaer* to asbostos and . the disease r*v?%ld said medical liter*tart on the subject shows tut, in 10 nertmt of all documcftied a^4 ot n/.9theiioma, the victims tls-v hi l a hirtety of exposure to the , ct*>j-*cicaing subeUocu. , If teuitfc Uh v.*i of another type - ci uncer, 0<tsoStiu said, it would ,, have >ceo tougher to prove a rono* ' Utica between Smiths early sipo* sure to asbestos dost and the - disrsat. ' . The fin in the case returned verdict os fl.l$ trJIioo against Caj* Industries Ltd. and it? subsid iary, Cape Asbestos Fibres Ltd. Capa is a Londot-hared mining op* erttion and a dirtribcto*- of asbus 'tea. In addition to the jury's award, Darlene Smith is entitled to ' 145-4,741 in interest payments. ' Pittsburgh Coning Corp. and .PPG Industries Inc. were named as defendants in the suit, but settin: meets were reached with both of Use tans. - 03113821 NBBB-0006400