This is a strict products liability case. Plaintiff/appellee Arthur B. Lee, an employee of Tyler Pipe Industries, Inc. from 1964 to 1972, became unable to work in 1985 due to a debilitating lung disease diagnosed as "silicosis." It is undisputed that such disease was brought on by inhalation of tiny particles of air-borne silica, referred to herein as "silica flour," which embeds itself in lung tissue,...
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