Accidental nature of dental injury from nut shell in birchermuesli

ATA/314/1998Cour de justice / Chambre administrative26 mai 1998Granted

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Résumé Omnilex

The insured suffered a dental injury while eating self-prepared birchermuesli containing a hazelnut shell fragment. The court held that the presence of the shell fragment was not reasonably foreseeable and that the record did not show a tooth weakness capable of breaking under normal pressure. The event therefore had the necessary accident character under Art. 9(1) OLAA.

Regeste Omnilex

Art. 9 al. 1 OLAA; accident character of a dental injury caused by a foreign object in food. An external event is extraordinary where the injured person, having prepared the meal himself, could not reasonably expect the presence of a shell fragment in the food. Accident character is not excluded absent proof that the affected tooth was so weakened that it would have broken under ordinary chewing pressure. The decisive factors are foreseeability of the foreign object and the absence of an alternative explanation based on pre-existing fragility (consid. as summarized).

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Descripteurs

ASSURANCE SOCIALE; ACCIDENT; AA; AFFECTION DENTAIRE; FRACTURE; CAUSE EXTERIEURE EXTRAORDINAIRE; ASSU

Normes

OLAA.9 al.1

Résumé

Ayant lui même préparé son birchermuesli, l'assuré ne pouvait raisonnablement s'attendre à trouver un reste de coquille de noisette dans son repas, la noisette étant facilement détachable de son écorce. Il ne ressort pas non plus du dossier que la dent fût si faible qu'elle n'eût pas résisté à une pression normale. Par conséquent, le caractère accidentel de l'événement doit être admis.

Mots-clés

social insuranceaccidentdental injuryforeign objectforeseeabilityextraordinary external cause

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Questions juridiques clés extraites par Omnilex

Question juridique clé

Whether the dental injury caused by a hazelnut shell fragment in birchermuesli qualifies as an accident under Art. 9(1) OLAA.

Solution extraite

Yes. The insured could not reasonably expect a leftover shell fragment in a meal he had prepared himself, and the file did not show that the tooth was so weak that it would have failed under normal pressure.

Motifs extraits

An extraordinary external cause was admitted because the shell fragment was not foreseeable in the meal as prepared, and no pre-existing dental fragility excluded accident character.

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