‘I was screaming in pain’: Woman suffers 2nd-degree burns after staff dropped hot soup on her at Novena eatery
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One woman's dinner at a Novena mall last Sunday (July 14) ended abruptly after an employee at the restaurant dropped a bowl of hot soup on her lap. The incident, which occurred at a Yakiniku Shokudo outlet in Square 2, left Jen, 40, limping to the nearby‘I was screaming in pain’: Woman suffers 2nd-degree burns after staff dropped hot soup on her at Novena eatery
One woman's dinner at a Novena mall last Sunday (July 14) ended abruptly after an employee at the restaurant dropped a bowl of hot soup on her lap. The incident, which occurred at a Yakiniku Shokudo outlet in Square 2, left Jen, 40, limping to the nearby Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). «I yelled and cried on the way there. I was really in pain,» the healthcare worker, who declined to give her full name, told AsiaOne. At the A&E department, she was treated for second-degree burns on her thighs and given five days of medical leave. Doctors had told her to expect pain and swelling in the burned area, as well as weakness in the legs. Unfortunately, while resting at home, Jen fell in the toilet and had to go the hospital again. This time, she had a fractured thumb. Recounting the scalding incident, Jen said that she went to the Japanese eatery after work, where she ordered barbecued meat and hot soup. While waiting for the food to arrive, she was watching a Korean drama on her phone. A while later, a waiter carrying a bowl of soup approached her table. Read more