Plaintiff-appellant Curtis Myles (“plaintiff”) appeals the grant of a motion for summary judgment by defendants-appеllees Johns-Manville Sales Corp. et al. (“defendants”) on the ground that plaintiffs suit is barred by the statute of limitations (R.C. 2305.10). For the rеasons adduced below, the judgment is reversed.
I
The plaintiff worked for thirty years as a fire bricklayer for many employers installing, utilizing, and removing asbestos-containing blocks, bricks, boards, and pipes in steel mills and factoriеs. In October 1976, the plaintiffs failing health forced him to retire from his occupation at the age of fifty-two. In Mаrch 1978, a medical doctor diagnosed asbestosis. A complaint, alleging that the plaintiff was suffering from that mаlady, was filed on February 12,1979. The complaint sounded in tort and was based on products liability theory. It alleged that the plaintiffs exposure to the defendants’ asbestos products directly and proximately caused him to develop asbestosis. The defendants’ alleged liability stemmed from negligence in failing to provide warnings оf a known danger, and strict liability under Section 402(A) of the Restatement of the Law, Torts 2d. The complaint further allеged that the defendants manufactured and sold a product which was defective when it left the defendants’ сontrol and injured the plaintiff.
At different points in the litigation several of the defendants moved for summary judgment on the ground that the plaintiff’s claim was barred by the statute *258 of limitations. In a journal entry filed September 30,1981, the court of common pleas denied the motions. On January 14, 1982, the court of appeals decided the case of O’Stricker v. Jim Walter Corp. (Jan. 14, 1982), Cuyahoga App. No. 43514, unreported. O’Stricker partially reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants there, but found that O’Stricker’s cause оf action accrued for purposes of the statute of limitations on the date of his last exposurе to asbestos-containing materials. Apparently relying on O’Strieker, on March 29, 1982, the court of common pleаs granted the defendants’ motions for summary judgment on the ground that the statute of limitations had run. 1
The applicable statute of limitations is R.C. 2305.10. Prior to June 12, 1980, the statute provided:
“An action for bodily injury or injuring personal property shall be brought within two years after the cause thereof arose.”
On June 12, 1980, Am. H. B. No. 716 took effect. The bill amended R.C. 2305.10 by аdding:
“For purposes of this section, a cause of action for bodily injury caused by exposure to asbеstos or to chromium in any of its chemical forms arises upon the date on which the plaintiff is informed by competent medical authority that he has been injured by such exposure, or upon the date on which, by the exеrcise of reasonable diligence, he should have become aware that he had been injured by thе exposure, whichever date occurs first.”
II
In his appeal the plaintiff assigned as errors:
Assignment of Error No. I
“It is the law in Ohio that the statute of limitations cannot begin to run until a сause of action accrues.”
Assignment of Error No. II
“The statute of limitations pertaining to this cause of action, Ohio Rеvised Code § 2305.10, should be applied as amended as it is a remedial statute and applicable to рroceedings conducted after its adoption.”
Assignment of Error No. Ill
“Ohio Revised Code § 2305.10, as construed by the court, in O’Stricker v. Jim Walter Corporation, denies the appellant due process guarаnteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and access to the courts guaranteed by Article I, Section 16 of the Ohio Constitution.
“(A) Ohio Revised Code § 2305.10 as applied by the trial court denies appеllant due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
“(B) Ohio Revised Code § 2305.10 as applied by the trial court denies appellant access to the courts in violation of Article I, Section 16 of the Ohio Constitution.”
Assignment of Error No. IV
“Ohio Revised Code § 2305.10 as applied by the trial court in this case is violative оf the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Articlе I, Section 2 of the Ohio Constitution.”
Ill
In the first assignment of error the plaintiff argues that his cause of action should bе determined to have accrued (and thus the running of the two-year statute of limitations commenced) upon his discovery of: (1) the fact of injury, and (2) the cause of the injury. He contends that the epidemiological nature of asbestos exposure-related diseases requires that an injury be deemed to have been disсovered by a potential plaintiff only after a causal relation is established between his medicаl problems and his *259 previous exposure to asbestos. That event occurred, the plaintiff claims, in Marсh 1978. The filing of the suit in February 1979 would, under the suggested rule, satisfy the statute of limitations.
In the very recent case (April 13, 1983) of
O’Stricker
v.
Jim, Walter Corp.,
“When an injury dоes not manifest itself immediately, the cause of action, arises upon the date on which the plaintiff is informed by competent medical authority that he has been injured, or upon the date on which, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, he should have become aware that he had been injured, whichever date occurs first.”
Obviously, O’Stricker is dispositive of the issues in Assignment of Error No. I and No. II as well. Those two assignments are well-tаken. That finding moots the remaining Assignments (Nos. Ill and IV).
IV
Accordingly, the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded for further рroceedings consistent with this opinion. 2
Judgment reversed and cause remanded.
Grey, J., of the Fourth Appellate District, sitting by assignment in the Eighth Appellate District.