Disclaimer to that effect is included in essentially any integrated circuit datasheet and even in manuals for things like network switches and UPSes. I assume

Disclaimer to that effect is included in essentially any integrated circuit datasheet and even in manuals for things like network switches and UPSes. I assume that the reason is that there is some US court case where component manufacturer was found liable for bodily harm caused by some kind of (obviously misdesigned) device where root cause was traced to failure of some trivial component made by said manufacturer.