Tag: guard
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Mechanical Engineering Expert Barred From Testifying for Not Testing Alternative Design
Plaintiff Paul Johnson sustained severe injuries while operating a RIDGID K-6200 drain cleaning machine (“subject machine”) at his workplace. He sued the machine manufacturer, Defendant Ridge Tool Company (incorrectly identified as Ridge Tool Manufacturing Company, Inc.), asserting claims for negligence, product liability, and failure to warn. Plaintiff brought this lawsuit contending that Defendant manufactured an…
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Industrial Engineering Expert Witness Permitted to Testify that the Subject Iron Worker Was Defectively Designed
Plaintiff Richard Culley (“Plaintiff” or “Culley”) initiated this action on September 9, 2020, seeking redress for claims of manufacturing defect, breach of expressed or implied warranties, design defect and failure to warn arising from an incident on December 9, 2017 (the “accident”) wherein Plaintiff, while working for Hudson River Truck and Trailer (“Hudson”), sustained serious…
