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.
Piercy is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. It is located on the South Fork of the Eel River 9 miles (14 km) north-northwest of Leggett, at an elevation of 794 feet (242 m). The first post office at Piercy opened in 1920. The name honors Sam Piercy, who settled there around 1900.