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According to the lawsuit filed by the boy’s parents, Macy’s is facing a lawsuit related to an incident in which a mannequin fell on an infant at a New York location of the department store, injuring the infant.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last week, the incident occurred in June 2019 when the toddler, identified in the lawsuit as “ZK,” walked into a Macy’s store on Green Acres Mall Long Island was located.
The boy’s family alleges that he tugged at a six-foot-tall male mannequin and that the mannequin fell and hit the boy in the face because it was not secured at the base.
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The lawsuit alleges that a Macy’s mannequin was improperly secured, causing it to fall on the toddler and hit him in the face. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Atalla Khalaf, the boy’s father, filed the lawsuit against Macy’s on behalf of his son. The lawsuit alleges that ZK suffered serious bodily harm, was in shock and suffered mental anguish, and seeks damages to cover medical costs incurred by the family, in addition to compensation for the infant’s injuries.
Family attorney Michael Brumer told the New York Post that three years after the incident, the marks left by the mannequin are still visible on his forehead and nose.
“A security guard told us it wasn’t the first time these mannequins had fallen over,” Brumer told the Post.
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Atalla Khalef filed the lawsuit against Macy’s in the Manhattan Supreme Court. (Trevor Collens/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Macy’s did not immediately respond to a request for comment from FOX Business.
The family’s lawsuit alleges that Macy’s should be held liable for the injuries ZK suffered as a result of the “negligence, negligence and/or recklessness” of personnel at the Macy’s store where the incident occurred.
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Falling mannequins have been the subject of further lawsuits against stores over the years.
According to TribLive, an Ohio woman is suing Men’s Warehouse after a 2018 incident in which she claimed the weight of tuxedo jackets on a mannequin caused it to fall on her while she was shopping.
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The mannequin incident that sparked Khalaf’s lawsuit happened on Long Island in 2019. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The Los Angeles Times reported that JCPenney faced a lawsuit in 2006 over an incident in which the plaintiff claimed to have been hit in the head by a female mannequin’s arm, which flew away while a store clerk was removing a blouse from a customer .