Liquid nitrogen cocktail: Lancaster’s Oscar’s Wine Bar fined £100k

On Wednesday, the bar that served Scanlon the liquid nitrogen shot was fined £100,000 ($155,000).

“Immediately on consuming the drink she was taken violently ill, retching and vomiting and smoking from her nose and mouth”, prosecutor Barry Berlin told the court.

Nikita Sobolkov/iStock The then 18-year-old said she was given the smoky beverage for free, a imilar one pictured here, and instructed to ‘drink it while it’s still smoking’. In an article by the BBC, John Emsley, a science writer and fellow at the Royal Society of Chemistry described the potentially unsafe effects of liquid nitrogen.

Berlin told the court how Scanlon ordered a shot of Nitro Jagermeister and things just went downhill for her after she consumed it.

“My stomach expanded. The manager said nothing about waiting for it to die down”.

She told how the incident had a “devastating impact” on her health, leaving her in constant pain, and called for the drinks to be banned.

The story Bar fined for serving Gaby Scanlon liquid nitrogen shot causing stomach removal first appeared on The Sydney Morning Herald.

After a Connecticut scan revealed the terrifying injuries Gaby had sustained from the £3.95 drink, the youngster had to spend three weeks in hospital, where her oesophagus was attached directly to her small bowel.

The publication also reports that senior health and safety officer Peter Lord had visited the premises in May 2012 and sent a letter with guidance on use of liquid nitrogen in drinks soon after.

Drinks containing liquid nitrogen are not illegal, but they are only safe for consumption if the substance has completed evaporated.

In June, Oscar’s Wine Bar Limited pleaded guilty at Preston Crown Court to one count of failing in the duty of an employer to ensure the safety of persons not in its employment.

In passing sentence today Judge Pamela Badley said that “failings fell very far short of standards”.

Scalan’s Lawyer said she still suffers “agonising pain” and is unable to work full time due to illness.

She added that the liquid nitrogen drinks shouldn’t be served at all, and that everyone should avoid them.

No risk assessment was carried out regarding the potential dangers of the drinks.

Dunn, of York, pleaded not guilty to being part of a corporate employer which failed in its duty to ensure the safety of persons not in its employment.

In mitigation Kevin McLoughlin, for Oscar’s Wine Bar, said that the company had been left “mortified” and apologised to Miss Scanlon and her family for the “errors and misjudgments that were made”.

“There is no need to teach this company or the Dunn family a lesson”. They failed to ensure the safety of its customers.