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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Downs Racing, L.P.

Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode · Multiple symptoms

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Downs Racing, L.P., 1280 Highway 315, WILKES BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA 18702 on — Multiple symptoms, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

An employee was pushing a money cart when the employee began feeling unwell. The employee sat down and had chest pains, tingling in his arms, and shortness of breath. The employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered

Downs Racing, L.P.

An employee was rotating a card reprint machine on a dolly. The machine caught the employee's right middle fingertip and amputated about an inch of the finger.

Downs Racing, L.P.

An employee was mounting a TV when they dropped it. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the left index finger.

Downs Racing, L.P.

An employee was walking in the cafeteria area when they fell on the floor and sustained a head injury. The employee was hospitalized.

Downs Racing, L.P.

In the facility shop area, an employee was overcome by chemical vapors. The employee experienced shortness of breath and was hospitalized.

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An employee was pushing tables together to seat a party of 20 when he felt a sharp pain and experienced difficulty breathing. The employee was hospitalized for a collapsed lung.

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An employee was walking and pushing a basket with cardboard on it when she felt her left knee crack. The employee's left femur was broken.

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An employee was on a ladder hanging drywall. He fell from the ladder's fourth rung, striking the ladder itself as well as the carpeted floor. He suffered five or six broken ribs, a bruised lung, and pain in the left wrist, neck, and back. He was hospitalized.

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An employee was cleaning an office and walking backward when they tripped over a trash bag, fell, and struck their face on the floor. The employee sustained a brain bleed.

Harrah's NC Casino Company, LLC

An employee was preparing hot melted butter on a flat-top grill and placing it in small containers once it was melted. As she turned to set the container down, it slipped out of her hand and landed on the grill. Butter splashed up and hit her in the face. The employee suffered second-degree burns to her right eye and the right side of her head and face, as well as first-degree burns to her right forearm.

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An employee tripped over a velvet rope stanchion, fell, and suffered a fractured left tibia and fibula. She was hospitalized.

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An employee used a step ladder to get onto a metal countertop section in a kitchen to clean an area near the ceiling. When he stepped back down from the countertop and onto the step stool, he fell to the floor, striking the counter and ladder during the fall. The employee suffered fractured ribs and contusions on his left elbow and head.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.