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.
Klamath is an unincorporated, rural, census-designated place (CDP) in Del Norte County, California, situated on the mouth of the Klamath River. The population was 651 at the 2000 census. Klamath is at an elevation of 30 feet (9 m).