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.
Iron Station, North Carolina is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County just outside of Lincolnton. A primarily industrial town, Iron Station's population as of the 2000 census was 6,210 in 2,389 homes with a population density of 154.84/km². Iron Station also serves as a feeder community for the larger cities of Charlotte, Hickory, and Lincolnton. Iron Station is a town that was an iron mining town with train stations.