A 3-year-old Utah girl had two fingers amputated when they were caught in a faulty grocery store escalator, her family says in a lawsuit filed against the store and the escalator manufacturer.
The girl’s mother, Silvia Zamora , said in the lawsuit that she heard a scream while she was at a self-checkout register on the second floor of Smith’s Marketplace in Salt Lake City.
She said she found her daughter on the first floor, covered in blood with her fingers stuck in comb plates and other components of the escalator.
The girl was rushed to a hospital but her middle and ring fingers had been amputated below the middle knuckles and couldn’t be re-attached.
Representatives for the store and the manufacturer, Schindler Elevator Corp., did not immediately return messages Wednesday seeking comment on the incident that occurred last September.
The suit claims safety switches did not stop the escalator and an employee had to rush over and halt it manually. In addition, it says the machine was missing components, there were no caution signs, and the store’s permit to operate it had expired more than two weeks before the finger amputation.
State inspectors had warned the store two years before to replace broken comb teeth and repair caution signs, but the work hadn’t been completed before the incident, attorneys say in court documents.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
Topics Lawsuits Manufacturing
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