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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Downs Racing, L.P.

Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Downs Racing, L.P., 1280 Highway 315, WILKES BARRE, PENNSYLVANIA 18702 on — Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

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

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Chemicals and chemical products, unspecified

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.

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.

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Veterans Administration Medical Center

An employee was passing through a building when she suffered an allergic reaction to a cinnamon air freshener. The employee began to feel dizzy and ill, ultimately becoming unresponsive. The employee was hospitalized.

LA Ship

An employee wearing a blasting hood was preparing to blast inside a tank. The line that supplies the hood with breathing air was plugged into an argon line. The employee breathed the argon gas and fell. The employee was hospitalized for argon poisoning.

Phillips 66 Company

An employee was preparing a pump for maintenance. When the employee removed a cover, chemicals were released into the air. The employee was exposed to hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan and was hospitalized.

County Materials Corporation

An employee was exposed to carbon monoxide that was leaking from a kiln. The employee lost consciousness and was hospitalized.

JML Landscaping

An employee was inside a trailer with a running lawn mower and sustained carbon monoxide poisoning.

Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races

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.

Yaamava' Resort & Casino

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.

AMERISTAR CASINO RESORT SPA

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

Tropicana Atlantic City

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.