ORLANDO, Fla. — A woman is taking legal action after she says part of a celling at an Orlando restaurant fell on top of her.
It’s just the latest safety issue discovered by inspectors.
“I know we don’t have earthquakes and stuff, but it felt like an earthquake or a sinkhole or something everything just started coming down on me,” said Dajah Stover.
Stover, her father and attorneys think most people would never believe a ceiling and the air conditioning system in a restaurant would suddenly come crashing down.
But it happened on Oct. 6 at Flyers Wings and Grill in Orlando.
“I just saw so much blood pouring from my head,” Stover said. “The ambulance came and they basically saw the situation, how it happened, and they saw the deep cut I had in my head, and they just I need to go to the hospital to get staples.”
Stover wasn’t alone in the restaurant, she was eating with her daughter, who was not quite two years old at the time.
“I had walked over there to sit next to her and scooted her over,” she said. “So if I had not walked there and scooted her over, everything would have hit her instead of me. And that was just by the grace of God, that she didn’t get hit.”
Stover is now suing the restaurant, claiming negligence and lingering health problems from the collapse.
“It’s definitely traumatic for the family, myself and the family, to know that my daughter and granddaughter were in a situation like that,” said Torrence Stover, Dajaj’s father.
According to state inspection reports, the restaurant has been cited for violations involving “ceiling tiles and vents soiled with accumulated food debris” since 2023, and just days after the ceiling collapse was given a “repeat violation warning” for lack of ceiling maintenance.
The lawsuit also alleges in “2024, a customer was injured when a piece of ceiling fell.”
“It wasn’t until after Dajaj got hit in the head and her daughter narrowly escaping injury or death that they closed down the restaurant, partially, to fix this,” said Ryan Fletcher, who is representing Dajaj Stover.
The restaurant also had multiple violations of the FDA food code and the lawsuit highlights a repeat violation for damaged or missing ceiling tiles.
So far, the business has not commented on the lawsuit.
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