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.
Blanchard is an unincorporated community in Blanchard Township, Traill County, North Dakota in the United States. Blanchard is near the North Dakota-Minnesota border, near the junction of North Dakota State Highway 18 and North Dakota State Highway 200. Near Blanchard stands the KVLY-TV mast, the second tallest man-made structure in the world. The KXJB-TV mast stands six miles from Blanchard, near Galesburg.