Business owners may want to pay close attention to this news out of Utah: A woman is in critical condition after drinking tea laced with a toxic cleaning chemical at a Salt Lake City-area restaurant.
According to the woman’s lawyer, investigators believe that the woman’s sweet tea was contaminated with lye – an industrial degreasing chemical, also found in drain cleaners such as Drano – when a worker at a Dickey’s Barbecue restaurant inadvertently mixed it into the sweet tea mixture thinking it was sugar. The woman suffered severe internal burns and it still hospitalized, The Associated Press reports.
What legal lessons can be learned from this unfortunate incident? Here are three:
The chance of an accident that injures a customer can never truly be eliminated. But by doing what you can to prevent these accidents can, at the very least, lessen the odds and reduce your potential liability in a personal injury lawsuit.
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- Family’s attorney speaks as woman who drank tainted tea remains in critical condition (Salt Lake City’s KSTU-TV)
- Liability for Performing CPR on Customers? (FindLaw’s Free Enterprise)
- Is It Legal to Spy on Your Employees? (FindLaw’s Free Enterprise)
- Consult with an experienced business attorney about your options (FindLaw)
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