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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