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.
Lemont Furnace is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States located near the communities of Hopwood and Uniontown. Despite being closer to Morgantown, West Virginia and due to its distant location within Fayette County, the community is a part of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metropolitan area.