A warehouse store shopper suffered deep and life threatening laceration as a result of falling merchandise. Our client was shopping at the store when a razor sharp piece of flashing fell from the shelf and hit his arm. A quick thinking customer applied pressure and a tourniquet to his arm to prevent a fatal loss of blood. Investigation revealed that this store had many prior events of flashing falling and even had events of flashing falling off the shelves and causing almost identical injury with significant lacerations. Falling merchandise events are well documented and have caused many injuries and deaths. In this particular store, one side of the flashing isle had the flashing properly secured to prevent falling merchandise, but the other side of the isle, where our client was injured, did not have the flashing secured. The flashing was overstocked and stacked all the way to the lip of the shelf, was not adequately secured and fell causing near fatal injury. The warehouse store settled with our client when presented with these facts.