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.
Heaters is a small unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. Heaters is situated about three miles north of Flatwoods on U.S. Route 19, which is a paved two-lane road. Access to I-79 is at Flatwoods. Heater's United States Postal Service ZIP Code is 26627. Heaters has no stoplight, no gas station, nor a general store, although it does have a post office. It used to have two bars, "The Boardwalk" and "Nancy's. " Both are now closed. The Boardwalk has become a restaurant, and Nancy's closed outright. Its most significant business is a Weyerhaeuser plant that manufactures oriented strand board building material.