An Edmonton woman is suing Lululemon Athletica Canada Inc. for almost $150,000, claiming that she suffered an eye injury after getting hit in the face by a metal-tipped draw cord while she was wearing a jacket she bought from a Lululemon store.

Patricia Beaulieu filed a statement of claim with Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta in  November, alleging that o she was shopping at a Costco store in Edmonton and trying to get something from a pallet when the elastic, metal tipped draw cord on her jacket became caught and then snapped back into her left eye.

Beaulieu says she suffered serious injury from the cord flying back in her eye. Including a 2.7 millimetre by 2.7 millimetre corneal abrasion and traumatic hyphema to her left eye. She claims that in addition to the pain and suffering caused by the injury, she should also be compensated for loss of income, earning and housekeeping capacity, care costs and out of pocket expenses.

All together, she is seeking $147,193 from the company best known for its yoga apparel.

The Government of Alberta is also named as a plaintiff, and is seeking to have Lululemon pay over $2,000 in hospital and practitioner costs, plus interest.

Beaulieu insists that Lululemon was “negligent” in three aspects of the jacket’s design, including the use of elastic material for a cord that hangs too close to the wearer’s face, the use of a metal tip on the draw cord, and failing to use other, safer draw cord material when there was “little or no advantage to using elastic and the risk of harm was obvious, foreseeable and easily preventable.”
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