Legal Opinion
Leonard Lapsley v. Xtek, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 2012No. 11-3313PublishedCited by 176 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arose from an accident at a steel rolling mill that permanently disabled one of the workers there. The circumstances of that accident were unusual. Industrial grease was propelled in a jet with enough energy to penetrate and pass through the human body like a bullet. That jet hit and disabled plaintiff Leonard Lapsley. At trial the jury found that the accident was caused by a design defect in a heavy industrial product designed and manufactured by defendant Xtek, and sold and installed in the mill. That equipment contained an internal spring that could…
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