Jurors deliberated how much to award a 5-year-old girl who lost three fingers on an escalator at a Dillard's department store in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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Lawyers for Kerriana Johnson said jurors should award the girl $38.5 million for the three fingers she lost on her right hand in a November 2002 accident at the Tyrone Square Dillard's.

Attorneys for the Little Rock, Ark.-based company, however, said the girl should receive $2.5 million and her mother, Lori Medvitz, bears some blame for the escalator accident, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported.

Lawyers for the girl accused Dillard's of using unlicensed workers to save money on escalator repairs, setting up a fake service company to avoid state inspections and failing to report dozens of accidents to state regulators.

The five-woman, one-man jury deliberated a second day Tuesday and was to assign percentages of fault to Dillard's and Medvitz, the newspaper said.