A Texas appellate court ruled that a trial judge properly excluded an expert witness from testifying about the cause of a worker’s respiratory problems and that the employer was entitled to summary judgment.
Case: Zamora v. Champion Cooler Corp., No. 05-16-00577-CV, 01/23/2018, published.
Facts: Luis Zamora worked for the Champion Cooler Corp. as an apprentice welder. In August 2012, his supervisor directed him to cut a metal plate to place over a pit where a press machine once stood. The pit contained grease, oil, moisture and debris.
Zamora used an oxy-acetylene torch ove...
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