Dangerous Products

Baytown, Texas, Dangerous Product Lawyers

If you have been injured in an accident at work or at home by a dangerous or defective product, you may be able to file a lawsuit against the company that made the product or the store that sold it to you. At The Linebaugh Law Firm in Baytown, Texas, our lawyers have experience handling dangerous product cases involving personal injury and wrongful death.

One of those cases involved a contractor who was killed while operating a hand-held grinder. While the grinder had a guard, the guard was removable and did not have a warning about the importance of not removing it. Consequentially, the guard was removed by a co-worker. Later, a piece of the grinding disc fractured off while a man was using it. The wheel shot back and hit him in the head with the force of a bullet, killing him. This wrongful death case involved liability on the part of the product maker as well as the employer, who knew that employees were operating the grinders without guards and had in fact encouraged them to do so because the owner felt the guards slowed workers down. The case also involved liability on the part of the general contractor who knew that the guards were being removed.

Our lawyers have also handled cases that involved:

• Faulty truck tarps with bungee cord systems, which snapped, putting out a person's eye.
• A valve-stem extender, which was misaligned on a wheel rim. Due to the misalignment, workers couldn’t tell if there was air in the tire or not. When they tried to unbolt the tire, it exploded, causing one death and one serious injury.
• Faulty snap-hooks, which failed during usage.
• Faulty wheel designs; and numerous other dangerous products.

Free Consultation: There is never a charge to simply talk to a lawyer about your dangerous product injury case at The Linebaugh Law Firm in Baytown, Texas.