Niemela v. Imperial Manufacturing, Inc.

OPINION

VOROS, Judge:

¶1 Plaintiff Patricia Niemela appeals the trial court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendant Imperial Manufacturing, Inc., dba Imperial Mailbox Systems, (Imperial) in her products liability action. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

¶2 Niemela delivered mail for the United States Postal Service (USPS). Starting in 2001, her route included approximately 600 homes within the Overlake Homeowners' Association (the HOA) in Tooele, Utah. Nearly every home in this neighborhood had the same type of mailbox, manufactured by Imperial; in fact, the HOA fined homeowners who did not use…