FOX - Perot Museum Lawsuit

Hello and good evening only on Fox. For news tonight. The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is facing a $1,000,000 lawsuit from the family of accounting man who fell on the stairs loss. It says the museum failed to make a portion of those stairs safe. Natalie so leases at story. Natalie Well, Steven Heather. That lawsuit was filed earlier this afternoon. The man's attorney tells us that the museum was too focused on aesthetics when it was designed and built rather than on safety. The man his client now suffering a life changing injury Think there's gonna be a lot of evidence shows that hopes for a museum knew they had a really dangerous situation out here for their patrons. Attorney Marc Lenahan Returning to the exact spot where his client, Myung Oh, fell on June A 2013 at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, they just walked. The entire museum had a wonderful day. 74 year old man and his wife from Carrollton were visiting the attraction with their church. Oh is on his way out when he lost his footing, stepping down, Lenahan says. That day, a lighting crew was set up nearby, restricting part of the walkway to foot traffic. But Mr Rose case, even navigate from there to there to there to there fell. When this area is turned off, there's no water. It's probably blocked off entirely because none of this had designed the steps. But you can't tell that when you don't recognize, the lawsuit says. Oh, the father of two adult sons is now a quadriplegic. His medical needs keep him living in a nursing home. You see, here we got a whole family walking up the stairs right now, Lenin says. The stairs are too tall. The text losses should be no born seven inches in. Each of these is 12 he says. The museum made alterations to part of the steps, adding railing, color, contrast ing and cement barriers. But the lawsuit says it failed to address the area where OH fell near a water feature which was turned off that day, making it look like the rest of the stairs. And that was the last time he walked because that stuff right there is captain minute bed ever since. All right, well, so far, no response from the Perot Museum we were told earlier little earlier this afternoon that we would get some sort of response within the next 45 minutes. That was some time ago, and that response has yet to arrive. Steve Manly talk about some of the modifications. Has the museum made any sense or others plan right? Well, that is one of the things that that Lenahan points out. He says that the museum has been aware of those injuries for some time. That has still not remedy the situation, and he says his concern is for the other kids and the and the elderly who may try to attempt to step exactly where Solution Downtown Dallas at the museum.