AUSTIN (KXAN) – On June 10, 2011 two glass panels fell from the W Hotel, landing on the pool deck. 

Two people on that deck were injured and later filed a lawsuit.

Crews are currently still replacing the more than 1,000 glass panels on the hotel.

Straus Properties CEO Beau Armstrong said they are still investigating the cause and may never know what happened.

Last year inspectors found a broken piece of concrete slab from the 27th floor — leading many to believe it shattered the glass.

Meanwhile, Armstrong said they are taking safety measures seriously and will complete the replacement of the glass panels and railings within the next 30 days.

W Hotel lawsuit

Two people who were in the swimming pool at the W Hotel on June 10 when panels of glass fell from the building, shattered and then rained down on them have filed a lawsuit against the W and Starwood Hotels and Resorts.

Susan Davis and Prashanth Magadi filed the complaint , represented by attorney Sean Breen, in Travis District Court. The two were injured and are still removing glass from their bodies when they filed the lawsuit in late June 2011. Davis said she still doesn’t know the extent of her injuries yet but remembers clearly that day at the pool on June 10.

“It was like this intense hail storm pretty much, said Davis. “I looked down at my arm, and I could see blood pouring down from my back. And I just started crying.”

The plaintiffs are asking that safety measures be put in place to prevent more falling glass, along with asking that covered walkways be built at the affected parts of the building.

The lawsuit alleges that the hotel had been warned of the problem before the June 10 incident, but failed to respond. In May, a similar incident happened at a  W Hotel in Atlanta where two women fell out of the hotel when glass failed and fell out of their hotel room, according to the lawsuit.

Davis and Magadi said they have been traumatized by the incident and seek recovery for damages, assert negligence on the part of the hotel, and ask for reasonable compensation for their pain, disfigurement, loss of earnings, loss of earning capacity, physical impairment, medical care and expenses and mental anguish.

The lawsuit was filed the day after a second incident of falling glass happened at the W, when three panels fell to the street below on June 27. No one was injured, though cars were damaged.

Crews at the W closed sidewalks around the hotel and built covered walkways to began replacing 1,000 glass panels.