On August 10, Jan Harding, 67, was eating at a Dickey’s Barbecue Pit with her husband, Jim, when she sipped her sweet tea and started gagging and coughing. It seems that an employee mistook degreaser, which is made up of lye, for sugar, mixing it into the tea and causing extreme burns to Harding’s throat and mouth. The restaurant has said that the worker involved in making the toxic tea no longer works for the company,.
It now appears that an employee at the same restaurant burned her tongue on July 5 on the same substance, after she stuck her finger in a sugar container to test whether it was sugar and then licked her finger. The worker’s tongue then started bleeding and blisters formed.
Nearly two weeks after the accident at the South Jordan, Utah, restaurant, doctors say Harding is steadily improving and able to speak.
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said he will probably decide whether to file any criminal charges by next week.
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