A Colombian man is suing Disney Cruise Line, after his thumb was amputated by a stateroom door during a Caribbean cruise. Marco Fidel Castro claims that the incident happened while getting ready for dinner on April 26, the second night of his cruise.
Castro’s attorney, Jordan Wagner, said, “He was near the hallway door with his thumb on the door frame, and his wife was holding the door open with her foot. She moved and her foot came away, and he didn’t realize the door was closing. The door slammed shut with force.”
Wagner said that Castro took the severed thumb to the ship’s doctor and “was treated by a nurse who bandaged the injury and put the thumb on ice.” He did not see another doctor for several days, until stopping in one of the scheduled ports, where he was told that there was not an appropriate doctor there. He then saw a doctor in Puerto Rico two days later, where he was told that it was too late to reattach the thumb.
He is suing Disney Cruise Line for “Failure to maintain cruise cabin doors in a safe manner; failure to warn anyone of the dangers associated with the cabin doors; failure to provide safety devices on the hinges of the cabin doors; failure to provide timely and adequate medical care.” He is requesting “unspecified damages associated with the cost of medical care and other costs.”
News source: Orlando Sentinel
