McGinnis v. United Screw & Bolt Corp.

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

RAYMOND J. BRODERICK, District Judge.

This is a products liability action filed by the plaintiffs against defendant United Screw & Bolt Corporation. The complaint, which was filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County and removed to this Court on the basis of diversity jurisdiction, alleges that plaintiffs Francis McGinnis and Kenneth Cheafsky were injured when two “ladder jacks” manufactured by the defendant collapsed and caused the plaintiffs to fall from scaffolding on which they were standing while engaged in “brick pointing” work. Currently before the Court…