Plaintiff Lener Davis appeals as of right from the trial court’s order granting defendants’ motions for a directed verdiсt in this defective design and manufacture case. We affirm.
Plaintiff was a punch press operator at Whirlpool Corporation. On January 19, 1987, plaintiff caught her hand in the pinch point between the gib of a press frame and the ram of the press as the ram was on its up stroke and suffered serious injuries to her fingers. Plaintiff filed suit against defendant Link, Inc., the manufacturer of the die used in the press, and defendant Capitol Engineering Company, the designer of thе die, alleging failure to design and manufacture sufficient guarding of pinch points.
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Plaintiff first argues that the trial court utilized an improper standard when ruling on defendants’ motions for a directed verdict. We disagree. Whirlpool contracted with defendants to design and manufacture a component part, according to Whirlpool’s specifications. The component part, a die, was installed by Whirlpool into a press used to manufacturе lids for washing machines. There is no allegation that the die itself was defectively designed or manufactured. Seе
Antcliff v State
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Employees Credit Union,
The supplier of a die set to a component manufacturer does not have a duty to placе guards on the die set or warn the component manufacturer of hazards attendant in its use.
Fredericks v General Motors Corp,
The employer shall insure, by adequate supervision, that correсt operating procedures are being followed and that all required safeguards are installed, are funсtional, and are being used.
In light of this statutory duty imposed on Whirlpool, the relevant inquiry is whether there was evidence presented of the manufacturer’s knowledge of unsafe use or that unsafe use is foreseeable.
Shipman v Fontaine Truck Equipment Co,
n
Next, plaintiff argues that defendants "assumed a duty” to comply with the rеgulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (miosha), MCL 408.1001
et seq.;
MSA 17.50(1)
et seq.,
when they considered miosha regulations in designing dies. Plaintiff further argues that admission of the standards was necessary to establish defendants’ breach of duty. We disagrеe, miosha regulations are applicable to employers and employees only.
Zalut v Andersen & Associates, Inc,
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Lastly, plaintiff аrgues that the trial court improperly excluded the testimony of plaintiffs expert witness, Adolf Wolf. There are three prerequisites to the admission of expert testimony: (1) the witness must be an expert, (2) there must be facts in evidenсe that require or are subject to examination and analysis by a competent expert, and (3) there must bе knowledge in a particular area that belongs more to an expert than the common man.
King v Taylor Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc,
The qualification of a witness as an exрert and the admissibility of the expert’s testimony are in the trial court’s discretion and will not be reversed on appeal absent an abuse of that discretion. Mulholland, supra at 402.
In this case, the issue involved the design and manufacture of a die. Plaintiff’s proffered expert, Adolf Wolf, is a mechanical engineer. Though Wolf did take a class in machine design during his undergraduate studies in the 1960s, he has never designed a die. Wolf has never worked for a tool and die designer, has never attended a tool and die design school, has never served as an apprentice for a tool builder or tool designer, and has never worked as a journeyman, tool builder, or tool designer. In fact, Wolf stated:
I’m nоt a tool and die maker, no, sir. In fact, in this case I never even looked at the die itself because from the parts that were produced it appears there was nothing wrong with the die that was manufactured to pеrform the part or manufacture the part. I never even looked at that.
A review of the extensive voir dire of Wolfs qualifications reveals that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in sustaining defendants’ objection to Wolfs qualifications and in excluding his *75 proffered expert testimony. Although Wolf was educated as a mechanical engineer, he does not have the necessary experience and training to qualify him as an expert in metal forming systems or as a tool builder.
Affirmed.