Allegedly Bony McNugget at Center of McDonald's Injury Lawsuit

A Chicago-area man claims an imperfect Chicken McNugget injured him so severely he needed an ambulance to rush him to an emergency room.

Zebadiah Anderson filed a lawsuit this week alleging that he bit into a “defective” McNugget with bone shards that wounded his mouth. He purchased the “defective McNugget” from the McDonald’s at 10 E. Chicago Ave. in May 2013. McDonald’s and Tyson, the supplier of the chicken meat used in McNuggets, are named as defendants.

“The Subject Chicken McNugget constituted an unreasonably dangerous product,” the lawsuit states, “when put to use for which it was intended, in that it could not be consumed with safety and without the risk of impaling and/or cutting the consumer in the mouth, tongue and/or throat, and potentially causing additional damage to the stomach, digestive tract and intestines of the consumer, due to the sharp bone shards contained therein.”

McDonald’s says its nuggets are “tempura battered and cooked to golden perfection.”