Slip and Fall at Grocery Store – San Diego Lawyer Trip & Fall
Jun 15th, 2009 by admin
A grocery store has an obligation (“duty”) to make sure that its aisles are clean and safe for shoppers. An inspection, or “sweep,” of the aisles must be made by a store employee on a regular basis. Many injuries occur in the produce department, where a fruit has fallen out of its bin onto the floor. For example, a tomato may fall to the ground and an innocent shopper looking at the produce or display may not see it. The shopper may inadvertently step on the tomato, lose his or her balance, and fall hard to the ground. The injuries may be as severe as a broken pelvis or hip.
If the grocery store keeps a log of who inspected the aisles and when it was last done, this can be crucial evidence. But even if the employee walked the aisles five minutes before the accident happened, he or she may not have seen the tomato. For this reason it is important that the evidence (i.e., the tomato) be kept or pictures taken of it as soon as possible so it can be inspected for signs like dirt or bruising that may indicate the tomato was on the ground for a substantial length of time and the employee either missed seeing the tomato or falsified the log sheet (such as saying he or she inspected the aisles when in fact he or she did not).
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