Labor/Employment,
Torts/Personal Injury
Jun. 11, 2024
A license to kill is no solution
A proposal to license stone countertop fabrication shops will not prevent silicosis among workers. Artificial stone contains high levels of silica, is too deadly to be used safely, and disproportionately harms young immigrant workers.
Raphael Metzger
General Counsel
Council for Education and Research on Toxics
Phone: 562-437-4499
Email: rmetzger@toxictorts.com
Raphael Metzger is the founder of the Metzger Law Group, a boutique law firm in Long Beach that sues chemical companies for poisoning and killing workers.
James P. Nevin
Partner
Brayton Purcell LLP
222 Rush Landing Rd
Novato , CA 94945
Phone: (415) 493-3531
Fax: (415) 898-1247
Email: JNevin@braytonlaw.com
UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA
James P. Nevin is a partner at Brayton Purcell LLP, an occupational disease and catastrophic injury plaintiffs law firm in Novato, California.
In her May 29 article published in the Los Angeles Times, “California could require licenses for stonecutting shops amid deaths of young workers,” Emily Alpert Reyes reports that Jim Hieb, chief executive of the stone industry trade association, suggests that licensing stone countertop fabrication shops will prevent severe illness and death to thousands of young Hispanic immigrant workers from exposure to artificial stone dust.
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