A restaurant is one of those places where you can feel safe while having a good time after a stressful day or week at work. But restaurants are not nearly as safe as we imagine them to be. From slip and fall accidents and broken chairs to assaults, burn injuries, and food poisoning. It is not uncommon to get injured in a restaurant accident in Pittsburgh or elsewhere in Pennsylvania.
Yes, spending an evening in a restaurant is not as safe as you think. And to prove this to you, our Pittsburgh premises liability attorney from SMT Legal is going to provide an example.
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It’s Friday night, so you reserved the best table at your favorite restaurant to impress your date. The date goes amazing. The food is super delicious. The waiter is nice and friendly. The music is fantastic. But then you decide to go to the restroom. You excuse yourself, stand up, and walk toward the restroom. As you walk down the hallway, it’s getting darker because the overhead light has gone out.
And then, all of a sudden, you end up on the floor. You slipped on a wet floor near the WC, because you could not see that the floor was wet and slippery due to inadequate lighting. You damaged your back as a result of the slip and fall accident.
Our experienced restaurant accident attorney Pittsburgh explains that the restaurant will most likely be held liable for your injury because it was negligent in two instances. First of all, the restaurant did not take reasonable steps to fix the lighting near the restroom, especially given that it was Friday night and the restaurant could reasonably expect an influx of visitors. Second of all, the restaurant failed to clean up the dangerous condition (wet floor) near the restroom in a timely manner to prevent restaurant accidents.
Slip and fall hazards and inadequate lighting are not the only dangerous conditions that can be found in restaurants. Other causes of restaurant accidents include but are not limited to:
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