LIVINGSTON, Texas – Three employees were badly burned after a floor collapsed, sending hot grease in their direction, authorities said.
Video taken inside the restaurant right after the floor collapsed showed all the destruction.
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Firefighters said after the floor caved in the fryer tipped over, sending the scalding hot grease everywhere.
Erica Acevedo, one of the employees, was badly burned in the incident. Her sister spoke to KSAT 12's sister station KPRC outside the hospital.
"She's gonna need skin grafts," Angela Galan said. "They've done surgeries, but she has several more to go."
Galan said Acevedo has burns over 50 percent of her body.
The Galan family said the 26-year-old single mother started working at Church's Chicken as a second job to make a little extra money for her son's back-to-school clothes and to help pay off her car.
"She just recently went back not even a week ago and started picking up hours," Galan said. "It's just not right."
The family wants to know why the floor collapsed in the first place. They believe the incident could have been prevented.
The Livingston fire chief said the incident is under investigation and OSHA is involved.