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The family of a boy who had to have some toes partially amputated after an allegedly improperly secured table fell on his foot has filed a personal injury lawsuit against the restaurant at which it happened.
Melanie Carrusco was eating dinner at the Garden City Grand Lux Café with her family on Easter Sunday, 2006, when a giant marble table fell onto the foot of her three-year-old son Joseph.
“This monstrosity of a table was on top of my son,” said Carrasco, 34. “I pulled his shoe off, and it was the worst thing that a mother could ever see.”
The table had crushed three of Joseph's toes. When Joseph was taken to the hospital, the three toes had to be partially amputated.
The Lawsuit
The suit, filed in Nassau County Supreme Court, seeks unspecified damages from The Cheesecake Factory, owners of the Grand Lux Café chain.
According to Carrasco's lawyer, Robert Silverstein, the table had not been properly installed. The table, which weighs between 350 and 500 pounds by Silverstein's estimation, was supposed to have metal rods attaching some of its legs to the floor, but those rods were not installed. This left the massive table prone to falling over.
“Why was it on the floor when regular folks were eating their meals there? It almost makes this a willful, wanton type of event,” said Silverstein.
According to Joseph's mother, the boy had to stay at Nassau University Medical Center for a month after the accident, and the family is unsure how much the loss of parts of his toes will affect him in coming years.
Carrasco said that more problems are likely to come as Joseph's foot grows without toes.
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