A jury found a company was not to blame for a woman’s amputated toes after an engine manifold fell on her.
In March 2009, Carol Durocher, then in her early 40s, was at a flea market when a 50-pound engine manifold fell off a table and onto her right foot, severing two toes. A surgeon attempted to reattach the toes, but they were amputated after gangrene developed. Durocher claimed an employee of Marine Power Holding leaned into boxes that pushed the manifold off the company’s exhibition table.
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