PIETZ v. ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT CO., INC.

88-908.

562 So.2d 152 (1989)

Harold Walter PIETZ v. ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC., and Biomet, Inc.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied March 23, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Kirby, Jr., of Emond & Vines, Birmingham, for appellant.

Larry W. Harper and H.C. Ireland III of Porterfield, Bainbridge, Mims, Harper & Mills, Birmingham, for appellees.


SHORES, Justice.

Harold Walter Pietz, a student at Jacksonville State University, was injured when he fell during an ROTC field exercise on November 16, 1985. The Jacksonville State ROTC unit was required to rappel down a cliff, using equipment issued by the ROTC unit. Part of this equipment was the snap link mountain piton (a/k/a a carabiner) manufactured by Orthopedic Equipment Company, Inc. ("OEC"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Biomet, Inc. As Pietz descended a...

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