News 12 Staff

•

Feb 12, 2026, 6:05 PM

•

Updated

More Stories

01:53

A few showers overnight across Long Island; tracking a nearby nor'easter late-week

00:37

Girl hospitalized after being struck by impaired driver in Bayport

03:16

Flights resume across the US Northeast after technical problems at a key air traffic center

03:26

Tracking a late-week nor'easter and whether or not local impacts will be significant

01:40

1 person killed following crash at Sunken Meadow State Park toll booth; 2nd fatality there in a week

01:46

Mineola man on parole accused of creating makeshift lab in apartment, starting fire

A Suffolk County man is suing McDonald's, alleging he suffered second-degree burns from a coffee spill.

In a lawsuit filed in Suffolk County civil court on Wednesday, Gerard Salvia alleges that he suffered the burns after hot coffee spilled on him at a Melville McDonald's drive-thru in October. He claims he was handed a coffee with a loose lid, which popped off and led to the hot liquid spilling on him.

"Miss, my skin just peeled off," Salvia says to an employee in a video of the incident he took shortly after it happened.

Salvia's attorney, John Beatty, says his client went to the hospital and still has scars from the incident.

"It was the temperature of the coffee that caused this injury," Beatty said. "The consumer has nothing to do with that."

A request for comment from McDonald's was not returned.