brandon patch

brandon patch

Our society is too contentious to another notch in his belt after a jury last week, the parents of the 18-year-old boy from Montana, $ 850,000, after her son, Brandon Patch, was killed by an American Legion game in 2003, when a baseball - Louisville Slugger baseball hit with aluminum bat - Patch shot in the head. Spot on the hill, when he could not respond in a timely manner comebacker the tragic accident.

Attorneys for the Patch family argued the bat manufacturer, Hillerich & Bradsby, did not provide proper warning about the dangers of using aluminum bats, meaning that the jury did not find the bat itself to be defective. The special verdict says the failure to warn was the cause of the accident.As the parent of two children, my heart goes out to the player's parents. It really does. But the assumed risk and dangers of baseball are obvious to anyone playing. If you get hit by a baseball, it's going to hurt. Get hit by a ball jumping off an aluminum bat, and, yeah, it's probably going to hurt even worse.Pitchers like Patch are even more susceptible to injury because they are in the direct line of fire. The family's attorneys said experts clocked the ball hit by the bat at 99.8 mph.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says, between 1991 and 2001, 17 people died in the U.S. of being hit by balls hit. Involving all types of bats. So where was the concern of parents about their son before he was hit by the ball.