Kevin Phillips v. Cameron Tool Corporation

MORAN, Chief District Judge.

Plaintiff lost much of his left leg in an Indiana industrial accident in 1988. He was, on September 14,1988, assigned to set up a die in a press for a metal-stamping operation. The die, designed and manufactured by defendant, consisted of two shoes. The upper half of the die or upper die shoe weighed 7,300 pounds and the lower half or lower die shoe weighed 6,500 pounds. When such a die was delivered the shoes were clamped together by metal straps bolted into the edge of the shoes. Bolts threaded into the resulting bolt holes in the lower die shoe were thereafter…