Plaintiff:	Welding Fume Plaintiff(s)
Defendant:	Lincoln Electric Company, Praxair, Inc., Union Carbide Corporation, Sandvik, Inc., ESAB Group, Inc., Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, Eutectic Corporation, Hobart Brothers Company, A.O. Smith Corporation, BOC Group, Inc., Viacom, Inc., Airgas-Gulf States, Inc., Illinois Tool Works, Inc., Miller Electric Manufacturing Co., Inc., Select Arc, Inc., National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Ferroalloys Association, Deloro Stellite Co., Industrial Welding Supplies of Hattiesburg, Inc., Airgas, Inc., Capweld, Inc., Welding Engineering Supply Company, Inc., Eiland's Welders Supply, Inc., General Electric Company, Certainium Alloys & Research Company, Elliott Turbomachinery Co., Inc., Mid South Welding Supply, Inc., B&R Industrial Supply, Columbia Welding, Nelson MCT South, Dixie Machine Welding & Metal Works, Inc., Ollie Gatlin, Peter Territo, JC International, Industrial Welding of Harvey, Nichols Wire, Inc., Dixie Mill, Inc., Steven Kennedy, Hypertherm, Inc., AvestaPolarit Welding, Inc., Thermadyne Holding Corporation, Stoody Company, E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, Inco Alloys International, Acetylene Oxygen Company, Templet N Templet Welding Supply Company, Inc., Big Three Industries, Inc., Arcos Industries, L.L.C., Dow Chemical Company, Foster Wheeler Energy Corp., BOC Financial Corporation, Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., National Standard Company, American Welding Society, Century Manufacturing, Inc., Aeriform Corporation, Air Liquide America L.P., Airgas Southwest, Inc., Avesta Welding Products, Inc., TDY Industries, Inc., Valley National Gases, Inc., Valley Welding Supply Company, Socra Corporation, TEXARC Metals, Inc., National Welding Supply Company, Inc., Techalloy Company, Inc., J.B. Alloy Corporation, Southern Welding Supply, Inc., Reynolds Metals Company, Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc., Handy & Harman, TNT Welding Supply of New Iberia, Ltd., Kobelco Welding of America, Inc., Kobe Steel, Ltd., Kobelco America, Inc., CBS Corporation, Polarit Welding Inc., Thermadyne Industries, Inc., Victor Equipment Company, Genuine Parts Company, Bohler Thyssen Welding USA, Inc., Lincoln Global, Inc., Haynes International, Inc., Enterprise Welding and Fabrication Inc., Gulf Coast Marine Supply Company, Consolidated Rail Corporation, Greco Gas, Inc., Sky Oxygen, Inc., Huntington Alloys Corp, Special Metals Corporation, Airgas Gaspro, Inc., Miller Welding Supply Inc., Fibre-Metal Products Company, Malcolm T. Gilliland, Inc., Navistar Advanced Technologies, Inc., Union Pacific Railroad Company, Smitty's Welding Supply, Inc. and WESCO Gas & Welding Supply, Inc.
Miscellaneous:	Brad A Racette, Washington University and Hobart Institute of Welding Technology
Interested Party:	Parkinson's Institute and Trinity Industries, Inc.
Case Number:	1:2003cv17000
Filed:	December 18, 2008
Court:	US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Office:	Cleveland Office
County:	Cuyahoga
Presiding Judge:	Kathleen M. O'Malley (MDL1535)
Nature of Suit:	Both
Cause of Action:	28 U.S.C. § 1332 Diversity-Product Liability
Jury Demanded By:	Both

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