Lawsuit: Marin restaurant left wire in sandwich

A tuna salad sandwich with a piece of wire in it from a Marin County restaurant left a woman with internal damage, a new lawsuit claims.

Laura Mroz, a Folsom resident, was driving home from San Francisco in November 2022 when she stopped at Boudin SF in Corte Madera and picked up the sandwich, a side of butternut squash and a fountain drink to go, the lawsuit alleges.

Driving north on Highway 101, Mroz took a bite of her sandwich, and as she swallowed, “she suddenly felt something lodged in her throat,” according to the lawsuit, filed April 4 in San Francisco County Superior Court.

Coughing, choking and in “significant pain,” Mroz pulled off the highway near the Marin County Civic Center, stopped in the parking lot of the Santa Venetia Market and called 911, the lawsuit claimed.

Paramedics from the San Rafael Fire Department arrived and took her to the emergency department at MarinHealth Medical Center.

Doctors found a piece of wire more than an inch long “lodged in her esophagus,” the lawsuit alleged. The wire was removed, but Mroz was “later diagnosed with a damaged esophagus,” the lawsuit claimed.

Boudin Bakery, a San Francisco company with more than a dozen bakery shops around the Bay Area, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The personal injury lawsuit alleges negligence and other claims. Mroz is seeking compensation for medical expenses, earnings lost because she allegedly missed work after the purported incident, and unspecified damages.

“As a direct and proximate result of the aforesaid negligent conduct of defendants, and each of them, plaintiff has suffered and continues to suffer injuries to her person, body, and health; nervous system, strength and activity; all to her general damages in an amount within the unlimited jurisdiction of this court, in an exact amount to be determined at the time of trial,” Mark Zanobini, a lawyer for Mroz, wrote in the lawsuit.

The court has scheduled a case management conference for Sept. 4.