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When equipment fails — whether on the job or at home — the consequences can be life-changing. If you’ve suffered serious injuries due to unsafe or malfunctioning equipment, an experienced unsafe equipment injury lawyer at Caputo & Van Der Walde – Injury & Accident Attorneys can help you pursue justice and compensation.
Equipment of all kinds, whether it is for personal use or is required to be used at one’s job, is manufactured to be safe when operated correctly. All products must be deemed safe by manufacturers in order to protect unassuming consumers and employees. In the event that injury arises, it may be the result of negligence, either in properly warning a consumer or other equipment operator of some sort of risk, or in the very design of the piece of equipment.
Unsafe equipment can result in a product liability or premises liability incident. If product liability is to blame, then the equipment itself poses a danger to anyone who uses it, regardless of whether or not safety instructions are followed. This danger can result from failing to inform the equipment user of a potential risk, or may even be the result of a completely unforeseen risk. In cases such as this, the manufacturer of the equipment can be held liable for all damages that the faulty and / or dangerous equipment causes.
Premises liability and unsafe equipment results when a building owner, usually a company or some other type of business, fails to properly maintain equipment, and the equipment, consequently, does not work the way it should.
If proper training is not given to employees on how to use the equipment, then that responsibility falls on the shoulders of businesses or premises owners as well. Regardless, it is the duty of employers that their employees are safe at all times, especially when using equipment that could pose a potential risk of injury. Unsafe equipment accidents can result in significant injuries, including but not limited to:
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