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The High Court awarded EUR 75,000 in damages to a chef who cut his hand while leaving an oyster from a restaurant.
Judge Kevin Cross stated that Jennifer Donohue, who was opening an oyster with a knife, had a deep tear in her left hand, had to be operated on later and had been in the distribution for several weeks.
Mrs. Donohoe, Mount Olive Road, Kilbarrack, Dublin sued Dorans On The Pier, West Pier, Howth, County of Dublin, following the accident of November 23, 2014.
She stated that she did not ensure that appropriate tools or knives were available for the specific task of oyster shelling and for not providing this tool.
It was further alleged that the employees had not been adequately trained or supervised at all.
Liability was admitted in the case and it was submitted to the damage badessment only.
In her judgment, Mr. Justice Cross testified that Ms. Donohue had worked all her life as a chef at the Howth restaurant at the time.
She was cutting oysters and holding what the accused had accepted as an inappropriate knife when she sliced her left hand. The wound was dressed by a pharmacist but she then went to the hospital and had to undergo an operation.
The judge said the laceration was deep and that she needed 19 stitches and that she was in a cast for four to six weeks.
Ms. Donohoe returned to work and then held a chef position in another institution, he noted.
She was very motivated about the job, he said.
His complaints concerned the lack of sensation around the left hand injury, his reaction to the cold and his difficulty in opening and closing the buttons.
Ms. Donohue was not someone who had exaggerated her injuries, he said.
He granted a stay of his decision on the condition that € 50,000 be paid immediately.
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