Childers v. Home Depot et al

Case Background

Sara Childers filed a product liability lawsuit against Home Depot and TTI Consumer Power Tools after she mangled three fingers and fractured another when her hand became caught in a "planer" that was being used to plane a cedar board. Sara Childers filed the case in the United States District Court, Oregon. Judge Marco A. Hernandez presided over the case. [Case number: 3:23-547]

Cause

In March 2020, Plaintiff Sara Childers purchased a planer from Defendant Home Depot in Washington State. Defendant TTI Consumer Power Tools manufactured the planer and designed it to smooth and shape rough wood. Nearly a year later, on March 8, 2021, Childers used the planer at her home near Ten Mile Lake, Oregon. She was working on a rough cedar board for her cabin. Wearing gloves, she inserted the board into the planer. Childers recalled that the planer suddenly stopped and started. When it restarted, the machine unexpectedly pulled the board into the blades, along with her gloved hand. She became t