{ARTICLE} #Dailymail A #SouthCarolina mother was awarded $10 million from Walmart after she stepped on a rusty nail while shopping and had to undergo three separate amputations that ultimately resulted in her losing her right leg above the knee. April Jones was walking through the main aisle of a #Walmart on Beltline Drive in South Carolina on June 26, 2015, when she felt a sharp pain and saw that a rusty nail had gone through her shoe and foot. After suffering an infection and subsequent surgery, Jones had to endure three separate amputation that eventually left her without most of her right leg. Surgeons initially removed her toes, but that failed to stop the infection spreading, and Jones ultimately lost much of her right leg, leaving her wheelchair-bound. For the past six years, she has been bound to a wheelchair and her daily life was ‘significantly interrupted’ because she lived alone and independently before the incident, according to a statement from Anastopoulo Law Firm, which represented Jones. A #FlorenceCounty jury deliberated for less than two hours before returning with the $10 #million to cover Jones’s past and future medical expenses, including a prosthetic limb and handicap-accessible upgrades to her home. According to lawyers at Anastopoulo Law Firm, Walmart’s policy mandates employees perform regular sweeps inside the store and failed to show evidence that staff cleaned before Jones’s injury. ‘The weakness of Walmart’s case, among other things, was their failure to produce a video that they claim showed their conforming behavior to a company policy calling for employees to perform regular safety sweeps. No such evidence was presented for the duration of the five-day-long trial,’ the law firm wrote in a statement. The verdict comes two weeks after a federal jury in #Florida awarded a woman $2 million over injuries she sustained at a Walmart in #Orlando after slipping and falling on milk leaking from a malfunctioning dairy cooler. ✨👉🏾 KindLY FOLLOW Our New Page @wonderwombman2 ✨🧡 ✨👉🏾 (DM FOR Promo Prices) 📬📬 https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9WbrZF3iJ/?utm_medium=tumblr
