Hung Ki KIM, Appellee, v. INGERSOLL RAND COMPANY, a New Jersey Corporation, Appellant

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

In this products liability case, a jury found that Ingersoll-Rand, Inc. had negligently designed a power tool, causing personal injury to Hung Ki Kim. We affirm the judgment of the district court 1 entered upon the jury’s verdict.

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Kim injured the ring finger of his left hand while operating a compressed air hammer, also called a chipper, at Minneapolis Electric Steel Casting. While Kim was using his left hand to guide the chisel on the operating end of the chipper, a sand burr gave way, ejecting the chisel and trapping Kim’s hand between the chipper and the steel…