Index card Quinn v Cameron & Roberton Ltd

Quinn v Cameron & Roberton Ltd

Hearings

14 Mar 1957 [1958] AC 9, HL

Subject Matter

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.

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