Chef scalded by boiling stock sues Tom Kerridge’s pub for £150,000

Andrew Lewis, left, suffered scalds on a 3rd of his physique after an incident on the double Michelin-starred pub (Image: Rex / Champion Information)

A chef is suing Tom Kerridge’s double ­Michelin-starred gastropub for £150,000 after he was scalded by boiling inventory ­throughout a kitchen accident.

Andrew Lewis was working at The Hand & Flowers in Marlow — the UK’s solely pub with two Michelin stars — when he was sprayed by the liquid as he tried to repair a faucet on an urn.

The 28-year-old suffered scalds throughout greater than a 3rd of his physique, leaving him completely scarred, struggling flashbacks and mentally traumatised, he claims.

He's suing each the Buckinghamshire pub and IPM Catering Ltd, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, the corporate accountable for servicing the urn.

The Hand & Flowers, opened in 2005 by Nice British Menu presenter Tom and his spouse Beth Cullen-Kerridge, is famed for its £88 steaks and was AA Restaurant of the Yr for 2011-12.

In court docket papers, barrister Simon Brindle stated Mr Lewis had been working there as a demi chef du partie for simply over a 12 months when he was injured on October 24, 2018.

He stated the chef was accountable for organising and switching on the inventory boiler, a strain cooker that heated meat and vegetable inventory ‘to 100°C’.

On the day of the accident, Mr Lewis seen inventory leaking and ‘first cleared it up, after which tried to repair the leak by tightening the faucet’.

The Hand & Flowers is the UK’s solely double Michelin-starred gastropub (Image: Rex / Shutterstock)

Celeb chef and presenter Tom Kerridge opened the pub in 2005 (Image: Rex / Shutterstock)

Andrew Lewis, left, was hospitalised as a consequence of his accidents (Image: Champion Information)

However he stated as Mr Lewis crouched down in entrance to tighten the faucet ‘it immediately got here away from the inventory boiler, inflicting pressurised, boiling inventory water to be ejected from it and over him’.

Mr Lewis, of Thame, Oxfordshire, claims that one or different of the companies was negligent in ‘failing to make sure he was adequately protected against the danger of burn and scald created by the unintended ejection of the inventory’.

Based on papers lodged with London’s Excessive Court docket, every of the companies says the opposite was in charge.

Mr Brindle stated that, after hospitalisation, Mr Lewis has returned to work and is now head chef at a special restaurant.

However he stated he has ‘vital ache in his legs on the finish of the working day’ and is claiming damages for potential lack of earnings if accidents worsen.

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