Products liability doctrine holds a manufacturer, or other party involved in selling a product, strictly liable when an article, placed into the market with knowledge that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes a personal injury. Consumers who are injured because of a fault with a product that the consumers had no ability to protect themselves against may recover against the manufacturer under a theory of products liability.
Burrel (formerly, Burrell) is an unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. It is located 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Lanare, at an elevation of 203 feet (62 m). Burrel is located southwest of the city of Fresno, midway between California State Route 99 and Interstate 5. A post office was established at Burrel in 1912. The place is named for Cuthbert Burrel, owner of a nearby ranch. In the 1850s and 1860s, nearby Elkhorn Station functioned as a stage stop.