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58-year-old Michel Pierre has been seriously injured when a toilet exploded in his face after he pulled the handle to test the water pressure in his Brooklyn apartment in New York.
Three other tenants were also injured by what DAILY NEWS website dubbed "the porcelain bomb."
The website said Pierre was briefly knocked unconscious and covered in blood by the explosion.
"It sounds silly but I'm still scared," DAILY NEWS quoted Pierre as saying.
"Maybe someday it goes away but right now I'm in pain."
He sustained shrapnel wounds from flying shards of porcelain that pierced his face, arms and legs, and required 30 stitches, his lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein told AFP.
"Those fears are part of his damages," he said, adding that “toilets are supposed to flush, not explode."
Rubenstein said a lawsuit would be filed against the management company of the building so that a jury could decide how much compensation Pierre should be paid.
The water had been turned off that day to allow for maintenance work in the 16-story building, which was built in 1964 and contains 275 apartments.