Exercise Ball Without Warning Labels Explodes Injuring Trainee

I have been an expert in several exercise equipment cases including one for the fitness training ball and its instructions and warnings. The warnings standards generally follow the consumer product standards, of which I am well aware. Many of my cases involve warnings and instructions. I have been a contributing author for a technical standard for labeling and instructions for home healthcare devices and serve on committees that deal with warnings and safe design. In this particular case, my additional education in physics may be especially useful to supplement my human factors expertise. It is not clear what the hazard was and what warning was included in the packaging, but as a rule, warnings and instructions need to be located where they are needed and that may very well have been on the ball, itself. There are durability issues that a manufacturer would need to solve and the fact that the ball exploded would make me think about whether the design specifications were appropriate for the user population and the expected uses.