Carol Clune Paul L. Clune Kelly M. Clune v. Alimak Ab Alimak Elevator Company Industrivarden Service Ab,defendant-Appellee

LAY, Circuit Judge.

In February 1996, Joseph Clune was working at a construction site in Kansas City, Missouri, for his employer, J.E. Dunn, when he fell from a construction hoist through an unenclosed area on top of the work platform.1 He died as a result of the fall. The hoist was manufactured by Linden-Alimak AB, a Swedish corporation that designed and manufactured construction hoists and other lifts. Industrivarden Service AB (“Industrivarden”) is one of two successor companies of Alimak AB. Industrivarden is a shell corporation that has no employees and does not manufacture or sell…