A worker poured them into the pipes of the upper apartment ... and "Sharjah Elementary" fined him

An Arab was hit with a burning substance that fell on him in the bathroom of his residence

The Sharjah Court of First Instance fined the accused 1100 dirhams.

Photography: Osama Abu Ghanem

An Arab resident was surprised, while relieving himself in the bathroom of his apartment, with drops of incendiary material falling from the ceiling and causing burns.

It turned out later that a worker was using this substance to clean the bathroom in the apartment above his apartment, and it leaked across the ceiling, and fell on him while he was fulfilling his need, prompting him to sue the specialized company and the worker who caused this before the first instance court in Sharjah, which ruled a fine on the worker, and the absence of a face To file a lawsuit against the company.

The reporter said in the investigations of the Public Prosecution that he lives with his family in an apartment in the Al-Taawon area in the Emirate of Sharjah, and while he was inside the bathroom to relieve himself, he was surprised by the sound of a simple explosion, followed by a power outage, then liquid leaked from the bathroom ceiling, and drops of incendiary substance fell on him that hit parts of His body, so he went out quickly, and realized that there was a leak from the upper apartment, so he went there immediately, and discovered that one of the workers of the building had poured a burning substance (acid) into the bathroom pipes because of their clogging.

He added that the drops that fell on him caused burns to his right forearm, palm, scalp, thigh and other parts of his body, pointing out that the incendiary substance caused the water drainage pipes to melt.

For his part, the worker accused of causing the injury to the sum in the investigations of the Public Prosecution and the court sessions said that he was cleaning the apartment above the apartment of the sum after evacuating its residents, denying that the burning acid was poured into the sewer pipes, but he used - as he said - a substance sold in stores for this The purpose, and he did not know that it might be incendiary, and he could not confirm that it caused the melting of the pipes and leakage to the lower apartment, indicating that the complainant did not inform him of any burning.

For his part, a security guard at the building said that he was accompanied by his colleague, the accused in the incident, supervising the cleaning process of the apartment, pointing out that the material used for wiring the sewage pipes is circulating in grocery stores, and not the burning acid, according to the complainant's claim, and the latter did not climb directly To complain that he had been burned, but he learned later that he had filed a report on the incident.

For its part, the Sharjah Court of First Instance ruled a fine of 1100 dirhams on the accused after being convicted of wrongly causing harm to the safety of the victim's body, who demanded the company in which the worker worked for a large financial compensation for the injuries he had sustained, and submitted medical reports from hospitals indicating that he had suffered complications from his spine and cartilage. And other parts of his body.

However, the defense attorney of the defendant company stated that the forensic report refutes all the allegations of the victim, and clarifies that the injuries he cited are old, and the burns that he suffered are a redness that disappeared within a short period, as well as the company’s lack of responsibility for the way he works. The worker who wired the sewer.

He explained that the prosecutor claimed that he was suffering from lower back pain due to the incident, and this was evidenced by two medical reports from two hospitals, but the forensic report proved that his pain was irrelevant to the accident, and that he had a previous medical history, which raises doubts about his account.

After considering the civil lawsuit, the court ruled that the case against the company was not appropriate.

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