A mass tort is a civil action involving numerous plaintiffs against one or a few corporate defendants. The tort may involve, for example, personal injuries suffered by numerous plaintiffs as a result of a defective product, or a mass disaster in which there were many injured persons, such as an airplane crash, or exposure of a large group of people to toxic chemicals or pharmaceuticals.
Franklin Furnace is a census-designated place (CDP) in Scioto County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 1,537 at the 2000 census. Franklin Furnace was the name of an early iron ore furnace built in eastern Scioto County in 1826 The community that grew in that area is named after the furnace. Franklin Furnace's post office has the ZIP code of 45629.