Lavespere v. Niagara Machine & Tool Works, Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1990-08-13

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ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge: An employee of a small manufacturing concern, after sustaining severe injuries to his hands while working with a machine owned by his employer, brought suit against the manufacturer of the machine, alleging that it was defectively designed in that it lacked adequate operator safeguards. After the district court had granted the manufacturer’s supplemental motion for summary judgment on the groun…

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