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A Philadelphia university student engaged in unsafe activity by not taking his seizure medication. As a result, he suffered several seizures and had to be hospitalized on each occasion. After repeated incidents, the student suffered a seizure and fell out of bed. He sustained a severe spinal cord injury from the waist down that rendered him wheelchair-bound and unable to walk. The school took the position that he caused his own injuries with self-destructive behavior.

A workman was delivering nitrogen cylinders to the basement of a photo processing center. In the basement, the chemicals are washed down a central drain. The cover to the drain was not placed properly on the drain, which created a tripping hazard. As he rolled two nitrogen cylinders across the basement floor, his foot went into the unprotected drain, causing him to lose control of the nitrogen cylinders and fall to the floor, injuring his knees, neck and back.

A workman was operating a backhoe that did not have proper safety features. Although the backhoe was operating as manufactured, it was still unsafely designed, which created the dangerous condition that led to the workman’s injury — a brachial plexus crush of the left thorax that rendered his left arm virtually unusable. After a series of mediations, the manufacturer agreed to correct the defect in all of its products and provided damages to the workman.