Bathroom Injuries | Personal Injury AttorneysI’ve never liked restroom stalls. Everything about them is uncomfortable. They are claustrophobic. For a structure that is supposed to promote privacy, they are extremely unprivate, with passersby able to see your feet underneath and slivers of you between the panels. They can hear every sound amplified by that patented toilet bowl shape (the inspiration for the Hollywood Bowl perhaps?). The restroom stall is bare minimum privacy at best. And we haven’t even discussed the disturbing mix of undesirables found on the floor and toilet seat.

Well, add another unpleasant feature to the restroom stall. A man in St. Petersburg, Florida is suing Lowes Home Center for injuries sustained while using their toilet. Allegedly, the plaintiff was relieving himself when another customer tried to open the door. The lock mechanism failed to keep the door shut, and the door smacked the plaintiff in the face, sending him back into the toilet. To add insult to injury, no one called 911 when the man’s injury was discovered. The plaintiff is claiming neck pain, disfigurement, mental anguish, and a herniated disk.

I don’t know about you, but my restroom stall anxiety just went up a few notches. I’ve always been annoyed by stall doors with no lock whatsoever. You have to keep one hand on it just to keep from exposing yourself in your most vulnerable state to whomever is waiting outside. Now, however, we know that the door can actually inflict physical harm. Great! Images of myself lying unconscious on the disturbingly filthy floor will haunt my dreams tonight.

Well, one more thing to watch out for. Everything out there, it seems, can kill you given the right circumstances (or at least maim you).
 

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