Simmons v. Monarch MacHine Tool Co.

How courts have described this case

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• applying crashworthiness doctrine to claim arising as a result of an industrial accident, and noting that liability will attach “where the design defect enhances the [plaintiff’s] injuries”
• manufacturer must anticipate environment in which product will be used and design against reasonably foreseeable risks attending product’s use in that setting
• duty to design product so as to eliminate avoidable damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).