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.
Lemont Furnace is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States located near the communities of Hopwood and Uniontown. Despite being closer to Morgantown, West Virginia and due to its distant location within Fayette County, the community is a part of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metropolitan area.