Companies that make and sell  products have a duty to make sure  that their products do not present an  unreasonable risk of harm to people who use them. If a certain product turns out to be dangerous or  defective, an injured consumer  may have a products liability  claim.

A worker in a manufacturing  plant was seriously injured when  he was pulled into the machine he  was operating. The machine did  not have an instruction manual, nor  was there a safety guard or an  emergency shut-off switch. The  worker, whose right arm was  crushed by the accident, was  awarded $16 million from the company that manufactured the dangerous piece of equipment.