Little Girl Suffers Serious Burns From a Slice of Pizza

A toddler has ben treated for second-degree burns after she was badly burned by a slice of piping hot pizza.

Koddi and Wade Dunn of Georgia, in the US, were driving home from a visit to grandma’s when they decided to stop for pizza.

The family placed a drive-through order for a Hot-N-Ready pepperoni pizza, which is cooked at a temperature of 550 degrees, according to a 2013 post on the company’s Facebook page.

When they received their food mum passed the box to her sons in the back seat, warning them to be careful, reports Yahoo news.

However, when one of the boys lifted a slice, a glob of piping-hot sauce and cheese fell on his two year old sister, Jordyn, who was sitting next to him in her car seat.

“Suddenly, this piercing scream came from my baby girl,” Ms Dunn, 40, said.

She dove into the back seat while her husband pulled over to the side of the road.

Seeing the skin on Jordyn’s hand blistering from the heat, they immediately drove to Gwinnett Medical Centre, where she was treated for second-degree burns.

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Ms Dunn called the restaurant and said she was told that after Hot-N-Ready pizzas are removed from the oven, they’re placed in 160-degree warmers.

“But the employee said they were ‘really backed up’ that night, so customers were handed pizza straight from the oven,” she said.

Ms Dunn says a simple warning from the employee could have prevented her daughter’s injuries.

Ms Dunn says that a manager left her a voicemail on Monday night.

“There was no apology or compassion for what happened to my daughter — my family is traumatised,” she says.

Koddi’s warning on Facebook has been shared nearly 6000 times.

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17 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 30 Nov 2022
    11:46 am
I hope it was made clear to her brother that this was not his fault

- - mom112217 said
  - 09 Dec 2018
    3:12 pm
It is hard to imagine it happen from s piece of pizza! I hope the young girl has a full recovery.

- - mom290396 said
  - 17 Nov 2018
    4:48 pm
Poor little girl. The parents knew the pizza was hot, which is y they told their boys to be careful, but they really should have held onto it in the front seat instead of passing it into the back seat

- - mom81879 said
  - 14 Nov 2018
    8:35 am
I really think too many parents are simply passing the buck when it comes to kids accidents. Melted cheese is very hot. With my kids, I always checked the food myself before passing it to them to eat, to make sure it’s not too hot

- - tessie said
  - 21 Oct 2018
    10:09 am
Poor little girl. I hope she makes a full recovery.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 20 Oct 2018
    4:03 pm
Ouch! poor little things, hope she’s on the mend soon.

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 18 Oct 2018
    1:56 pm
Whoa, that’s really hot and fresh then!! Poor bubba.

- - mom160421 said
  - 18 Oct 2018
    11:06 am
I hope the little girl recovers and this is a good warning for parents to be vigilant around hot food.

- - mom114371 said
  - 18 Oct 2018
    10:06 am
It was an accident but could probably have been avoided if an adult had tested how hot the pizza was before giving it to the child.

- - rovermum said
  - 18 Oct 2018
    8:36 am
I hope this gorgeous little girl recovers quickly and is not traumatised. This was an accident and perhaps a number of things could have been done to avoid it. I appreciate the family is upset, but when all is calm, perhaps they can see it was an accident that perhaps could have been avoided on many levels.

- - Ellen said
  - 18 Oct 2018
    4:22 am
Aw bless you poor little bubba, hope you recover well and soon !!
These things can happen to all of us, even at home.

- - mom265671 said
  - 17 Oct 2018
    11:59 pm
Poor little bubba, speedy recovery

- - mom101628 said
  - 17 Oct 2018
    10:01 pm
Not foreseeable, but what a terrible think to have happened to that poor little girl.

- - mom241861 said
  - 17 Oct 2018
    8:33 pm
OMG you poor little girl and your beautiful brother this is a Big Accident yet reading this story makes people think now before serving food. Take Care xxx

- - mom90758 said
  - 17 Oct 2018
    8:09 pm
Oh my! That’s quite a terrible burn!!

- - BellaB said
  - 17 Oct 2018
    7:52 pm
That’s certainly not an accident most people would foresee.

- - Blossom said
  - 17 Oct 2018
    7:52 pm
I would think that even 160 degrees is too hot to touch with bare skin. Why didn’t the adult passenger in the front seat hold it with at least a towel between it and his/her legs. You should always carry something that you can cover yourself or a child with in case of a mechanical break down or accident.