If you are named as a defendant in a private suit because of your actions, and those actions violated a statute, the court will usually find the violation of the statute is evidence of negligence. This evidence is usually enough to find the defendant guilty of negligence per se in the private suit as well. This rule only applies if the statute was intended to prevent the type of damage which actually occurred and started the lawsuit, and the statute was intended to protect people like the plaintiff. You should know that complying with all statutes does not guarantee immunity from negligence actions. Lawful behavior may still be negligent.
Strict liability means liability imposed without any evidence of negligence.
That is, you may be found guilty if someone got hurt. It will not make any difference whether or not you acted reasonably, or how careful you may have been. Abnormally dangerous activities are judged on certain factors. Those factors include the existence of a high degree of risk of some kind of harm to the person, land or property of others, the likelihood that the harm will be great, the inability to eliminate the risk by exercising reasonable care, the extent to which the activity is not a matter of common usage, the inappropriateness of the activity to its location, the extent to which the activity's value to the community is outweighed by its dangerous characteristics. This principle allows the plaintiff to recover the full amount of damage from any single defendant, regardless of how much or how little that defendant was actually responsible for the injury.