Each year Oregon restaurant goers suffer injury. In 2007 alone OSHA made 229 restaurant inspections and found 508 violations of health and safety rules and gave fines totaling $43,000.

I have handled food injury claims for 17 years and the food injury claims I have handled involve claim with injuries from biting into hard things to burns to cuts from foreign substances in the food.

From my experience it’s the high turnover of fast food places which creates a chaotic environment in the restaurant and certainly makes it difficult for the restaurant owner to keep up with OHSA safety regulations.

The Oregon Restaurant associations says food service is the largest state private sector industry which employs 120,000 workers which works out to one in every 14 Oregonians.

My best advise from the get go is to retain the evidence, report the facts, and follow up with an experienced food injury lawyer.