Gantes v. Kason Corp.

BEGLIN, A.J.S.C.

On February 27, 1991, Graciela Gonzalez, a resident of Gaines-ville, Georgia, was employed at the Dutch Quality House, a food processing plant in Gainesville. It is alleged that while working on a shaker machine used to separate chicken parts, she was struck in the head by one of the machine’s moving parts, causing her death.

Kason Corporation, the defendant, is a New Jersey corporation with its principal place of business in Linden, New Jersey. It manufactured the machine in question, a 48" Kason Vibroscreen, and sold it to Salvo Corporation, of Fall River, Massachusetts, for…