A 3-year-old girl lost four fingers in an escalator accident at a Bellaire H-E-B store, prompting her family to sue the escalator manufacturer and the store.

Ben Crump filed the suit against H-E-B and TK Elevator Corp. after a 3-year-old lost four fingers in an escalator incident at an H-E-B in Harris County.

H-E-B and TK Elevator Corporation (TKE) are facing a lawsuit by a family after a toddler lost four of her fingers in an escalator accident at a Bellaire H-E-B store.

H-E-B is facing a $1 million lawsuit over an incident that occurred at a Bellaire location earlier this year, when a 3-year-old girl lost four fingers in an accident on the store's escalator. The lawsuit against TK Elevator Corporation and H-E-B,

The child's right hand was "sucked into the escalator down to (her) palm," resulting in four fingers being "amputated," a lawsuit in Harris County alleges.

The family of a 3-year-old girl is suing H-E-B and TK Elevator Corporation after four of her fingers were amputated by an escalator at the grocer’s Bellaire store, according to court documents. National civil rights attorney Ben Crump filed the lawsuit Wednesday.