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Girl Burned By Manhole Cover Will Sue

By Rob on July 22, 2005 at 03:08 am
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NEW YORK - A woman who was branded with letters from the Consolidated Edison logo when she fell off a skateboard onto a searing hot manhole cover in Manhattan last year filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking unspecified damages from the utility.

Elizabeth C. Wallenberg, 27, was burned just above her buttocks and on her left arm when she fell off her skateboard onto a cover over a steam pipe at Second Avenue and 13th Street in the East Village shortly after midnight on Aug. 11, 2004, said her lawyer Ronald Berman.

"It literally looked like a brand that had been applied by someone," Berman said about the burn marks left on Wallenberg's body.

He said she was treated for the injury in the Beth Israel Hospital emergency room and was released.

Wallenberg, then a Brooklyn resident who worked for Paper magazine, reportedly said she heard her skin sizzle and saw an "o" and an "n" from the hot cover impressed upon her body. Wallenberg has been told the scarring is permanent, Berman said.


Here's a picture of what happened.

I don't blame her for suing.

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Avatar for Dave

Not to say she doesn’t have a legitimate complaint, especially since the scarring is permanent…

But isn’t it just a little odd?  27-year-old magazine employee.  Falls while skateboarding.  At midnight.  On a Wednesday.

I mean, sucks to be her, but shouldn’t stupidity be factored in somewhere in the equation? 

Then again, I’m a heartless bastard.  So I don’t know.

Dave on July 22, 2005 at 05:07 am
Avatar for ICallMasICM

’A 26-year-old skateboarder ‘ ?!?!?

Looks like a cool tat to me.

ICallMasICM on July 22, 2005 at 07:07 am
Avatar for Carl B.

ja, dave...I wouldn’t even call it stupidity factor, just dumb luck. It’s not like the manhole fell through the ground on her, or hot water suddenly shot out of it. She fell on it all by her lonesome. I wouldn’t sue, I’d be kicking my own ass. Mebby not so much in this case though...I think it does look pretty cool on her.

Carl B. on July 22, 2005 at 08:07 am
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I take that back, I’d like to get reimbursed for medical fees das all...emergency rooms are very expensive and it was necessary in this case. The city has a hot pipe in public, pay someone’s medical if they get burned...not like they’re doing it on purpose. but if she’s asking for millions FOOEY!

Carl B. on July 22, 2005 at 08:08 am
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