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O'NEAL v. CELANESE CORP.

No. 91-1103.

10 F.3d 249 (1993)

Raymond G. O'NEAL, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Lisa M. O'Neal, Plaintiff, v. CELANESE CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee, and Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 18, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Levasseur, Jr., Cumberland, MD, argued (Ronald J. Levasseur, on brief), for appellant.

Stanley B. Rohd, Weinberg & Green, Baltimore, MD, argued (Sherry H. Flax, Matthew G. Dobson, on brief), for appellees.

Before WIDENER, Circuit Judge, CHAPMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and MACKENZIE, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

OPINION

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

The appellants, Raymond and Lisa O'Neal, were plaintiffs below. They claim that Raymond O'Neal suffered lead poisoning when he used a welding torch to cut metal coated with lead-based paint and inhaled the fumes from the burning paint. At the time, O'Neal was employed by Trans America Liquidators, which had purchased the contents of a factory owned by the defendant, Celanese. Trans America was in the process of dismantling...

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