A Victorian woman who was impaled on a star picket after falling off a veranda while drunk and urinating over the side is now suing the property owner.

South Ballarat woman Michelle Egglestone, 35,sustained serious internal injuries when the picket penetrated her groin, requiring surgery.

Ms Egglestone is seeking damages and loss of earning capacity from Leslie Furness, of Smythes Creek, following the incident on November 1, 2008, according to documents filed in Victoria's Supreme Court.

She also sustained pelvis and lower abdominal injuries, claims she has post-operative scarring, depression and anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder and nightmares resulting from what happened.

Mr Furness — her former fiance — was the owner and occupier of the house, therefore Ms Egglestone believes he was negligent in not providing adequate balustrading on the veranda and uncapped star pickets in the garden area below, where Ms Egglestone fell.