PHILADELPHIA – A New Jersey woman says she suffered severe injuries to her hand as a result of using a defective wrap machine which was missing proper safeguards.
Traci Weber of Franklinville, N.J. filed suit in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on June 26 versus Campbell Wrapper Corporation, of De Pere, Wis.
The suit was removed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on July 9.
The litigation states Weber was required to use a wrap machine which did not contain the proper safeguards on July 30, 2018. As a result, she significantly injured her hand due to the “defective and unsafe wrap machine.”
The injuries required surgery to correct and caused permanent scarring and disfigurement, the suit says.
The plaintiff asserts that the defendant was negligent in failing to design the machine safely, allowing the wrap machine to be sold in a defective condition and failing to warn the user of the device’s design defects, among other charges of negligence.
For counts of negligence, products liability and breach of warranty, the plaintiff is seeking damages in excess of $50,000 and in excess of the amount requiring compulsory arbitration.
The plaintiff is represented by Thomas F. Sacchetta of Sacchetta & Baldino, in Media.
The defendant is represented by Maureen E. Daley of Rawle & Henderson and Louis Hockman of Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva & Meyers, both in Philadelphia.
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania case 2:20-cv-03365
Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas case 200601682
From the Pennsylvania Record: Reach Courts Reporter Nicholas Malfitano at nick.malfitano@therecordinc.com