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Salons Fined As Infection From Pedicure Cost Man Big Toe
The tools used at Indiana salons, including locations in Muncie and Anderson that allegedly caused severe infections for customers.
MUNCIE, IN - Several Anderson and Muncie beauty salon locations have been placed on probation over the reported use of tools used to remove calluses from customers' feet, resulting in infections, IndyStar reports. The salons were reportedly fined over the alleged use of scalpels and razor-type devices, or credo blades, and a customer of Nail Art in Anderson had to get his right big toe amputated after developing an infection in his right foot.
According to IndyStar, a lawsuit claims a customer of T-Nails salon on Tillotson Avenue in Muncie developed an infection that could have killed him and cost him his leg. Indiana law prohibits the use of razor devices at beauty salons.
Other salons in the state, including Lovely Nails in Carmel, are facing complaints of using the pedicure razors. State authorities say Lovely Nails in Carmel has fully cooperated, according to IndyStar.
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