The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1958] AC 9
[HOUSE OF LORDS.]
QUINN APPELLANT; AND CAMERON & ROBERTON LTD. RESPONDENTS.
1957 Jan. 31;
Feb. 4, 5, 6;
Mar. 14.
Feb. 4, 5, 6;
Mar. 14.
VISCOUNT SIMONDS, LORD OAKSEY, LORD MORTON OF HENRYTON, LORD COHEN and LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM.
Factory
— Dust
— Grinding of metals
— “Grinding” and “cleaning of castings”
— Whether mutually exclusive
— “Abrasive wheel”
— Wheel “of bonded emery or similar abrasive”
— Meaning of “similar”
— Carborundum
— Silica dust
— Pneumoconiosis
—
Grinding of Metals (Miscellaneous Industries) Regulations, 1925 (S.R. & O., 1925, No. 904), reg. 1.
Causation
— Breach of statutory duty.
Negligence
— Safe system of work
— Dust, injurious
— Iron foundry
— Silica
— Exhaust appliances
— Respirators.