Yvette Hinds Sues Mcdonald's Over 51st Street McMuffin Injury
Yvette Hinds, a Texas woman, filed a civil complaint on May 26 in Manhattan Supreme Court alleging that a Sausage McMuffin with Egg from McDonald’s restaurant #18884 on 51st Street and Broadway left her seriously injured. The complaint says she bought the sandwich on May 25, 2023, then became violently ill and nauseated after finishing it.
Hinds Complaint Details
The complaint says the sandwich was “wholly unfit for human consumption” and contained “contaminants, poisons, toxins, parasites, bacteria, germs and/or organisms which would and did cause various serious personal injuries.” It also says her “physical, nervous and mental systems were seriously and permanently injured by such contaminated food.”
Hinds’s filing says she suffered “severe pains and distress throughout her body,” underwent “several operations, procedures and treatments,” and is no longer able to take care of her “customary duties” at home. Attorney Mark Shirian represents her.
McDonald's Midtown Location
The complaint traces the case to McDonald’s restaurant #18884 at 51st Street and Broadway in Manhattan. It accuses the company of negligence and carelessness in the preparation, service, furnishing, testing, handling, cleaning, inspecting, guarding, storage, warning, distribution, control and protecting of the food.
Hinds’s filing also says McDonald’s warranted and represented that the food was “reasonably safe, good, sound, fit, proper, healthful, and wholesome food.” McDonald’s and the franchisee in charge of the Midtown Manhattan location did not respond to requests for comment.
McDonald's Recent Claims
The lawsuit is one of several recent food-injury claims reported against McDonald’s. Last year, Staten Island resident Louis Spitalieri sued the company after allegedly finding a clump of hair and a shard of metal in a hamburger, and Charles Olsen sued after an errant slice of cheese on a Big Mac allegedly triggered anaphylactic shock.
In February 2025, Brooklyn pastor Irsaliev sued McDonald’s after eating a rotten Chicken McCrispy sandwich that he said caused about six weeks of serious gastric distress. Hinds’s case now adds another Manhattan-specific claim to that string of filings.
