Retiree left with ‘horrific burns’ from McDonald’s coffee, according to lawsuit

An 84-year-old man in Mississippi is suing McDonald’s for gross negligence on super-hot coffee that he said left with ‘horrific’ third-degree burns.

Former Oliekerker Joseph Gentry, of Long Beach, Mississippi, was a ‘healthy, robust, retired gentleman’ when he pulled up to a McDonald’s Drive on January 14, 2023, claims his advocates.

But after his coffee cup accidentally spilled on his legs while he was handed over to him, he allegedly suffered “enormous pain and suffering” as well as “mental anxiety” and needed skin transplants.

The lawsuit, submitted by Gentry and his wife Beth on March 19, raises questions about whether McDonald’s has improved his safety practices since the famous and a lot of disorder ‘1994, when a 79-year-old woman sued the fast food giant about very similar injuries.

At the time, a jury ruled that McDonald’s was negligent in the sale of coffee against such steps and awarded the women’s damage, but her case was later named an example of an excessive lawsuit culture in the US

“If a direct and foreseeable consequence of these burns, Mr. Gentry should have sustained serious and chronic physical pain, he had to undergo extensive medical treatment, entered into extensive accounts and accidental expenses and permanently joined and dissatisfied,” the lawsuit of Gentry, which was first reported by the Mississippi Sun Herald. (WARNING: Links contain graphic photos of injuries.)

It is alleged that the lid of the coffee cup jumped off while it was transferred to Gentry due to well -known “design defects” and that we require unspecified damages from McDonald’s and his franchisee, Ten. Enterprises.

McDonald’s, along with ten D’s owner Bill Descher, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is far from the first time that fast food connections have been sued over the temperature of their products. McDonald’s was hit with coffee lawsuits in 2012 and 2023, plus a similar suit over a burning chicken McNugget, while Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks and Chick-Fil-A also faced directly.

During the 1994 case formally known as Liebeck v McDonald’s, after the plaintiff Stella Liebeck, the jury heard that McDonald’s from his franchisee required to keep up to 190F coffee, and that this temperature could cause third-degree burns within three seconds.

The hearing also uncovered that the company received more than 700 reports on coffee burning wounds between 1982 and 1992, and that it settled out of court with some of the injured people, but refused to change his procedures.

The jury eventually granted Liebeck $ 160,000 in compensation and imposed another $ 2.7 million in criminal damage to McDonald’s, reducing the judge to $ 480,000.