Woman swallowed severed fingertip while drinking Trader Joe’s orange juice, thought it was pulp and had already polished off the whole bottle: Lawsuit

An Oregon woman took a swig of some orange juice she bought from Trader Joe’s and wound up swallowing a severed human fingertip that she initially thought was a big piece of pulp, according to a lawsuit.

Julee O’Neil filed a legal complaint in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Monday against the Trader Joe’s Company for $10,000 in damages plus legal fees.

The complaint, which was obtained by Law&Crime, alleges that O’Neil accidentally ingested the severed fingertip, which had a piece of a rubber glove at the end of it, in June 2025 after purchasing some organic orange juice from a Trader Joe’s in Portland’s Hollywood neighborhood located at 4121 Northeast Halsey Street…

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