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.
Boardman is a city in Morrow County, Oregon, United States on the Columbia River and Interstate 84. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 2,855. The 2007 estimate is 3,310 residents. It is part of the Pendleton–Hermiston Micropolitan Statistical Area.