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.
Fort Mill is a town in York county in the U.S. state of South Carolina, and a suburb of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina and Rock Hill, South Carolina. Approximately 9,400 people live inside the town's corporate limits with a total of nearly 35,000 people residing within the entire township. In the 2000 census, the population for the municipality of Fort Mill had a population of 7,587. Fort Mill township is home to notable businesses such as Continental Tire the Americas, LLC. , Muzak, Springs Industries, The Inspiration Network (INSP), URS Nuclear Center, and serves as the headquarters of Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps.