Plainfield Barber's Dirty Clippers Gave Man MRSA: Lawsuit

A Plainfield barber cut a man’s scalp with dirty clippers and infected him with MRSA, according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court.

The staph infection on the scalp of Tyrone Carroll left him with a “large cyst” and a “permanent scar,” the lawsuit said.

Carroll filed suit against Plainfield barbershop Platinum Fades and its owner, Israel Torres.

Carroll went to get a haircut at Platinum Fades in September 2012 and was being taken care of by a “barber believed to be named Raoul,” the lawsuit said.

During the haircut, Carroll’s scalp was sliced by Raoul’s “dirty” clippers, the suit said, and he “developed MRSA which formed into a large cyst on his scalp, required medical treatment, and resulted in a permanent scar.”

MRSA is “is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that’s become resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat ordinary staph infections,” according to the Mayo Clinic’s website.

“Most MRSA infections occur in people who’ve been in hospitals or other health care settings, such as nursing homes and dialysis centers,” the site said.

MRSA infections “can quickly turn into deep, painful abscesses that require surgical draining,” the site said. “Sometimes the bacteria remain confined to the skin. But they can also burrow deep into the body, causing potentially life-threatening infections in bones, joints, surgical wounds, the bloodstream, heart valves and lungs.”

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