Woman eating at wing restaurant with 1-year-old daughter gets hit by falling ceiling and AC unit because of 'soiled' tiles, lawsuit says

A pistillate was eating astatine a Florida helping edifice erstwhile abruptly the extortion collapsed and an aerial conditioning portion fell connected apical of her head, she alleges successful a lawsuit.

Dajah Stover contends successful her 6-page lawsuit that Flyers Wings and Grill successful Orlando knew astir the deterioration of its ceiling for years and failed to act, starring to the illness that she says could person been acold much disastrous than it already was.

On Oct. 6, 2025, she was eating with her 1-year-old girl astatine the cardinal Florida establishment. It was astir 3:30 p.m., according to a photograph she posted connected societal media and past shared with country NBC affiliate WESH.

Suddenly, the extortion caved successful and the "ceiling and aerial conditioning portion collapsed and fell onto Stover's head, causing important injuries," the ailment states. Her kid was not hurt.

"It felt similar an earthquake oregon a sinkhole oregon thing was coming," she told the section TV station. "Everything conscionable started coming down connected me. I conscionable seen truthful overmuch humor pouring from my head."

Emergency responders came and saw the "deep cut" Stover had connected her caput and took her to the infirmary to get staples enactment in. She claims successful the suit that she has "suffered symptom and intelligence anguish" and "will proceed permanently to endure large pain" owed to the restaurant's "negligence and carelessness."

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According to the lawsuit, for astir 2 years earlier that fateful October 2025 day, Flyers Wings and Grill knew it needed to repair oregon regenerate its ceiling.

On Oct. 30, 2023, Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) "inspected Defendant's premises and noted that the ceiling tiles were soiled with accumulated nutrient debris, grease, particulate oregon mold similar substance passim the constitution which is simply a usurpation of the US Food and Drug Administrations' Food Code." A photograph of the inspection form, which was included successful Stover's complaint, besides shows that the investigators recovered an "[a]ccumulation of black/green mold-like substance successful the interior of the crystal machine."

About 10 months later, connected Aug. 26, 2024, "a lawsuit was injured erstwhile a portion of ceiling fell onto her head," Stover's ailment reads, noting that a bodily wounded assertion was "resolved" by the constitution earlier a lawsuit. Just astir a week aft this incident, the DBPR again inspected the premises and "issued different citation regarding ceiling tiles that were soiled with accumulated nutrient debris, grease, particulate oregon mold similar substance."

The pursuing May, the edifice was inspected again, with regulators uncovering "damaged and missing ceiling tiles." The crystal instrumentality inactive allegedly had the accumulation of "black/green mold-like substance," but it was "immediately cleaned."

Then came the Oct. 6, 2025, incidental involving Stover. DBPR cited the edifice "with aggregate violations of the US Food and Drug Administrations' Food Code," including "a repetition usurpation of a missing ceiling tile and aggregate ceiling tiles and vents were soiled with accumulated nutrient debris, grease, dust, oregon a mold-like substance."

According to WESH, customers were making complaints astir the constitution and demanding inspections each the mode backmost successful July 2018. The outlet said its newsman sought to talk with idiosyncratic from the edifice astir Stover's lawsuit, but to nary avail. The restaurant's ownership has not commented connected the complaint.

Stover is seeking a assemblage proceedings and wants damages successful excess of $50,000.

Above all, though, she is grateful her girl was not hurt.

"That was similar by the grace of God, you know, that she didn't get hit," Stover said.