Fredericks v. General Motors Corp.

I respectfully dissent.

An understanding of the issue requires an understanding of the interrelated functions of power presses and diesets. Power presses. vary in complexity and design, but they have two basic parts, a bed and a ram. Dies are especially made to produce shaped manufactured parts. A dieset for a power press has two basic parts, an upper die and a lower die, which in use are attached to the ram and bed of the press. The workpiece, which is positioned between the two dies, is reformed into a desired shape when the ram, with the upper die attached, presses the workpiece against the…