John Morrell v. Precise Engineering

Negligence, Scaffolding, Design, Manufacturer, Duty to warn. While painting a house, the plaintiff toppled thirty feet to the ground when scaffolding he had attached to the roof collapsed.
As a result of the fall, he sustained a compression fracture of several vertebrae and a broken wrist. Several days before
starting the job, the plaintiff had purchased two metal triangular-shaped brackets from Webber Lumber and Supply, Inc. (Webber),
a retailer of building products. The manufacturer of the brackets was the defendant, Precise Engineering, Inc. (Precise).
1 Two theories of negligence were set out in the complaint against Precise. The first was a claim that Precise was negligent
in its design of the roof brackets and the other was a claim that Precise was negligent in failing to provide adequate instructions
or warnings as to proper use.