Smith v. Ontario Sewing MacHine Co., Ltd.

Eldridge, Judge.

This is an appeal from the grant of summary judgment to the manufacturer-seller in a fact-intensive product liability case based upon proximate cause involving the post-sale warnings, i.e., a mop assembly machine that had a cutter blade activated without the controls being activated by the plaintiff. The plaintiff, Regina Smith, was injured after the post-sale notice was sent by Ontario Sewing Machine Company, Ltd. to her employer, Wilen’s Mop Manufacturing; the notice only warned the employer to stop using the machinery and to purchase a more expensive newer model to avoid…