{"id":6144,"date":"2016-07-13T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2016-07-12T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T12:00:34","slug":"us-district-court-finds-nonworkers-exposure-asbestos-within-zone-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/us-district-court-finds-nonworkers-exposure-asbestos-within-zone-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. District Court Finds That Nonworkers&#8217; Exposure to Asbestos Was Within the Zone of Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were eight cases, all involving claims by or on behalf of the estates of now deceased former workers of the defendant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weyerhaeuser.com\">Weyerhaeuser Co.<\/a> The former workers had claimed that their nonoccupational exposure to asbestos was the cause of their injuries and subsequent deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Weyerhaeuser operated a door manufacturing facility in <a href=\"http:\/\/ci.marshfield.wi.us\">Marshfield<\/a>, Wis., from 1960 to 2000. It was there that the company manufactured wood products with multiple operations and divisions on that site. The defendant manufactured a door containing asbestos in the plant from 1968 until it stopped using asbestos in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence in these cases showed that asbestos dust was emitted from the Weyerhaeuser plant. It was also shown that Weyerhaeuser hauled asbestos dust and scrap waste through landfills into the surrounding community. All of the eight plaintiffs in the case were employed by Weyerhaeuser at the Marshfield plant during the relevant time period assigned to varying job duties.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/us-district-court-finds-nonworkers-exposure-asbestos-within-zone-risk\/#more-6144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were eight cases, all involving claims by or on behalf of the estates of now deceased former workers of the defendant Weyerhaeuser Co. The former workers had claimed that their nonoccupational exposure to asbestos was the cause of their injuries and subsequent deaths. Weyerhaeuser operated a door manufacturing facility in Marshfield, Wis., from 1960 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121,84,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos-litigation","category-chemical-exposure-injuries","category-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. District Court Finds That Nonworkers&#039; Exposure to Asbestos Was Within the Zone of Risk &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There were eight cases, all involving claims by or on behalf of the estates of now deceased former workers of the defendant Weyerhaeuser Co. 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