{"id":291460,"date":"2026-02-11T00:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291460\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:59:10","slug":"woman-withdraws-e60000-personal-injuries-claim-against-keelings-after-footage-of-incident-played-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/291460\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman withdraws \u20ac60,000 personal injuries claim against Keelings after footage of incident played \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A fruit packer who suffered a serious shoulder injury when she slipped on a single grape at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/keelings\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/keelings\/\">Keelings<\/a> fruit processing plant, was forced to withdraw a \u20ac60,000 personal injuries claim against the company after a  CCTV zoom-in revealed she had been the author of her own downfall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Forensic engineer Donal Terry, for Keelings, was able to show Judge James O\u2019Donohoe in the Circuit Civil Court that the grape on which fruit packer Myriam Scanderi had slipped on was one of two that had spilled from a bucketful she had been carrying at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">During the introduction of Scanderi\u2019s case, defence counsel Adrianne Fields said the hour-long case might be significantly shortened if the court first viewed CCTV of the actual incident. The video,  when zoomed in on, showed the single offending fruit spill in front of her and cause the accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Scanderi (57), of Marlborough Court, Dublin, had, the court was told, suffered a serious shoulder injury that might affect her for the rest of her life.  Fields, who appeared with Byrne Wallace Solicitors for the Co Dublin fruit producer, said  CCTV showed two employees walking directly ahead of  Scanderi with no sign of grapes on the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Once the zoom-in was shown to the court,  Fields asked the judge  for time to allow the two expert engineers in the case to confer to see if they could agree there had been no sign of deleterious material on the floor before the small spillage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Counsel also told the court  the CCTV showed Scanderi carrying the bucket of grapes at a forward-tilted angle, which allowed the spillage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Following a meeting of the two engineers, Scanderi\u2019s counsel told the judge  she was withdrawing her claim against Keelings and a recruiting company. The case was struck out with no further order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Both parties had agreed that Ms Scanderi had  suffered a significant shoulder injury for which the defendants denied any responsibility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fruit packer who suffered a serious shoulder injury when she slipped on a single grape at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,139419,43],"class_list":["post-291460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-keelings","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}