On the same day Sydney woman Sangeeta Guru won more than $90,000 in court after slipping on a grape in a Coles supermarket, a Melbourne man has made a similar claim.

Except Rakesh Dhody didn't grapple with a grape. He slipped on not just a banana skin, but the whole banana.

Rakesh Dhody injured his finger at Coles

Back in April, he says, after visiting his sick wife in hospital, he popped into the Coles at Tarneit in the western suburbs, near his home. The 63-year-old pensioner stood on the banana on the floor, fell, and got his finger jammed in some shelving.

"Various Coles staff and eye-witnesses approached me while I was in pain... and helped." He was, he says, in "extreme pain". A nurse from a nearby medical centre was summoned and she got him into see an emergency GP. His finger was fractured.