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Oil-slip business to pay £8,750
A TEENAGER was left badly scarred after slipping into a pan of extremely hot oil left on the floor of a busy restaurant.
A year later Claire Swainger can still not stand for prolonged periods because of injuries sustained in the accident at the Hull restaurant The Omelette.
Yesterday owner George Tambaros, 46, and The Omelette were ordered to pay 8,750 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to five breaches of health and safety following the incident last February.
Ms Swainger, who was 19 at the time, had been working a split shift at the restaurant and was due to finish at 8pm that evening. At 6.30pm, while the restaurant was still in service, the head chef drained the oil from one of the deep fat fryers into two pans so it could be cleaned.
The oil – which would have had a temperature of around 350C – had only been to left to cool for half an hour when Ms Swinger, who was carrying salads, slipped, putting one leg into the pan full of oil.
As she fell, she hit the other pan with her other leg, sending hot oil spilling across the floor.
She burnt her feet, ankles, legs, bottom and lower back and was admitted to hospital.
She later had to have damaged tissue removed and skin grafts.
She has been left with "significant" scarring.
Norma Cottis, Divisional Manager (Environmental Health) at Hull Council, said the restaurant had a long-established practice of draining oil from a fryer while it was still extremely hot.
The offences could have been avoided if safe working practices for procedures for the safety and well-being of employees had been in place.
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