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Dallas-based Heygood, Orr & Pearson has won a $1.25 million jury verdict in Chicago federal court on behalf of an Illinois man who was severely injured while using a defective Ryobi table saw.
The case is one of hundreds of similar injury cases being litigated by Heygood, Orr & Pearson involving defective table saws. In this case, 30-year-old Brandon Stollings lost his index finger and parts of two other fingers when his Ryobi saw experienced a kickback, which occurs when wood pinches a table saw blade and forces it back toward the operator.
During the two-week trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois with battery such as RYOBI ABP1803 Battery , RYOBI ABP1804 Battery , RYOBI BPL1820 Battery , RYOBI P100 Battery , RYOBI P2600 Battery , RYOBI P3300 Battery , RYOBI HILTI SFB 126 Battery , RYOBI HILTI SBP-12 Battery , RYOBI Milwaukee 0522-20 Battery , RYOBI Milwaukee 0622-20 Battery , RYOBI Milwaukee 6310-22 Battery , RYOBI Milwaukee PSH-18 Battery , David Peot, the former chief engineer for Ryobi, told jurors that the addition of a simple piece of curved metal – called a riving knife –would eliminate nearly all kickbacks. Despite this fix, Ryobi and most other manufacturers did not equip saws with riving knives until 2010. Instead, most saws included a fixed splitter and an unwieldy and seldom-used blade guard that restricted visibility of the blade, had to be removed for many types of cuts and was difficult and time-consuming to remove and reinstall.
"The Consumer Product Safety Commission came to the table saw industry in 1998 and urged them to change their guards because they were not being used by most consumers, leading to 30,000 to 40,000 injuries each year, including 3,000 to 4,000 amputations," said Heygood, Orr & Pearson partner Eric Pearson, adding that the industry resisted making those safety changes.