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.
Little Cedar is an unincorporated community in central Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. It lies along local roads northeast of the city of Osage, the county seat of Mitchell County. Its elevation is 1,194 feet (364 m), and it is located at 43°22′49″N 92°42′33″W / 43.38028°N 92.70917°W / 43.38028; -92.70917 (43.3802478, -92.7257437). Although Little Cedar is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 50454.