A Los Angeles County jury found businesses that make or distribute engineered stone at fault Wednesday for the suffering of a 34-year-old stonecutter afflicted with an incurable disease. In a decision watched closely by silicosis experts and the stone industry, jurors deliberating at Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown L.A.
His mask would grow filthy. Even when he used water while cutting, he said, 'a lot of dust would come off' when the liquid had dried. His wife, Wendy Torres Hernandez, said that when Reyes Gonzalez got his diagnosis, he called her crying. 'He was told that there was no cure for it. There was nothing that he could do,' she said. 'I told him we would figure something out to help him, because I couldn't just let him die,' she testified.