A tuna salad sandwich with a piece of wire in it from a Bay Area bakery left a woman with internal damage, a newly filed lawsuit claims.
Laura Mroz was driving home from San Francisco in November 2022 when she stopped at Boudin SF in Corte Madera and picked up the sandwich, a side of butternut squash and a fountain drink to go, according to her lawsuit filed Thursday.
Driving north on Highway 101, Mroz took a bite of her sandwich and as she swallowed, “she suddenly felt something lodged in her throat,” the lawsuit filed in San Francisco County Superior Court said. Coughing, choking and in “significant pain,” Mroz pulled off the highway near the Marin County Civic Center, stopped in a grocery store parking lot and called 911, the lawsuit claimed. Paramedics from the San Rafael Fire Department soon arrived, the lawsuit alleged.
Mroz, whose city or county of residence is not specified in the lawsuit, was taken to Marin General Hospital’s emergency department, where doctors found a piece of wire more than an inch long “lodged in her esophagus,” the lawsuit alleged. The wire was removed, but Mroz was “later diagnosed with a damaged esophagus,” the lawsuit claimed.
Boudin Bakery, a San Francisco company with more than a dozen bakery shops around the Bay Area, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mroz is seeking compensation for medical expenses, earnings lost because she allegedly missed work after the purported incident, and unspecified damages.
