105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort

Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle · Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort, 777 Casino Drive, CHEROKEE, NORTH CAROLINA 28719 on — Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c., affecting the Multiple trunk locations.

An employee was underneath a laundry truck troubleshooting the vehicle's air brakes. The driver was pumping the gas pedal when the trucked moved forward, rolling over the employee, who was hospitalized with a shattered pelvis, internal bleeding, and abdominal injuries.

Hospitalized Multiple trunk locations Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified

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.

Bowman Steel, LLC

An employee was attaching a steel angle plate weighing (approximately 200 pounds) to the end of a structural member (5,000 pounds) and was supported by dunnage. The dunnage was a crane mat (11 inches tall) with a 4x6 board on top of it and it supported five identical members. The main piece was 30.75 feet long, 37.25 feet tall, and 1 food wide. As the employee slid the piece of metal on top of the member to begin attaching it, the entire member began to tip over. The employee went to stop the main piece from tipping over and it landed on his ankle, fracturing it.

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.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee pulled into the customer's driveway, parked, and exited the vehicle. He opened the sliding side door on the vehicle to retrieve a package. The customer began backing their vehicle out of their garage and it struck the employee in the back of his left leg. He was pinned him between the two vehicles, causing contusions and lacerations.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee reached into a hamper, picked up a package, and was hospitalized with a back injury that caused pain in his lower extremities.

U.S. Postal Service

On July 10, 2025, an employee tripped over a yellow pillar and fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left femur.