A steaming-mad grad can finally get his day in court.
After years of legal haggling, Columbia graduate Karl Anderson finally won the right to sue the school in court — saying it should have covered a scalding-hot pipe in his university apartment that seriously scalded him, according to a judge’s decision issued on Thursday.
The former student blacked out and fell off the toilet in 2007, landing on the piping-hot pole and scorching his face and torso, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court suit.
The bare pipe reached a temperature of 168 degrees, his suit said.
Anderson, 38, is now an attorney at Merrill Lynch.
He says he suffered from “an episode of syncope, commonly known as fainting or loss of consciousness, which caused him to lean forward and make contact with the steam riser pipe.”
Syncope is a medical condition where loss of blood flow to the brain causes unconsciousness.
He suffered “serious, severe” second and third degree burns “to his face and shoulder,” medical records show.
Lawyers for Columbia University did not return calls for comment.