MOUNDSVILLE – A Marshall County woman says she was injured when she took a bite of her McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese that had a metal washer hidden inside.
Chyanne Parker and Charles Parker Jr. filed their complaint December 5 in Marshall Circuit Court against McDonald’s Corporation and franchisee Moundsville LLC, which operates a location in Moundsville.
According to the complaint, Chyanne Parker visited the restaurant on September 8, 2022, and ordered food that she took home to eat. She says when she bit into the Quarter Pounder, she broke four of her teeth on the metal washer hidden inside the sandwich.
“Much to her dismay, hidden in the sandwich was a metal washer, and the bite she took fractured four of her teeth, necessitating expensive and painful dental repairs including extractions, crowns and a fixed bridge,” attorney Gail W. Kahle told The West Virginia Record.
The complaint says four bicuspids were injured, and two of them had to be extracted and will be repaired by a fixed bridge. The other two required crowns. It says none of those repairs are permanent and, because Chyanne Parker is 27 years old, could incur follow-up repairs up to 10 times in her lifetime.
“Perhaps even more disheartening to the Parker family was the refusal of this enormous corporate entity to engage in any settlement negotiations whatsoever unless and until the Parkers could prove that the restaurant was somehow negligent in hiding this washer inside her sandwich,” Kahle, of Kahle Law Office in Wheeling, told The Record.
She accuses the defendant of product liability. The plaintiffs seek compensatory damages for Chyanne Parker’s pain and suffering, dental repairs, future dental repairs, aggravation, annoyance and inconvenience. Her husband Charles files a claim for loss of consortium.
Marshall Circuit Court case number 22-C-103
