Shopping Cart Fall
A 20 month old boy was seriously injured when the shopping cart he was riding in toppled to the side as his mother bent to pick up store items which had fallen. The case settled after we demonstrated how the accident was caused by the low side forces required to produce tipping, poor placement of warnings on the cart and the existence throughout the store of numerous defective wheel attachments.
Falling Lumber
A carpenter was purchasing a 1' x 5' x 10' plank from a large home improvement store. The lumber was displayed in self-service bins. During the selection process, a 12' plank slid off from an adjacent bin and struck the carpenter, injuring him. After demonstrating that the lumber display was perfectly safe and could only have been in an unsafe position as a result of the carpenter's actions, a prior customer, the case was settled.