Plaintiff, a sous chef at Houston's restaurant on East 53rd Street in Manhattan, was severely burned on December 30, 2003, when a soup tureen containing au jus gravy, which was sitting on a four-burner gas stove in a pot of boiling water, fell and spilled boiling liquid on her. The accident was allegedly the result of a partially broken cast iron grate covering the stove burner, which was unstable when something was put on it. Plaintiff claimed that the grate had been broken...
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