Viejas Casino & Resort

An employee was working on a propane line when the cap blew off. A spark ignited the propane, resulting in a fire. The employee sustained second-degree burns to 20% of the body.

On September 30, 2019, an employee fell from a moving escalator during cleaning operations. The employee fractured his C-2 vertebra and was hospitalized.

An employee was moving a dresser out of a hotel room in order to refinish it. A metal rim on the bottom of the dresser cut the employee's hand and severed a tendon. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The injured employee was assisting a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enforcement operation. During an apprehension, officers returned fire at a subject and struck the employee with a bullet. The employee sustained a gunshot wound to their right hand.

The injured employee was assisting in the disassembly phase after a radar array had been lowered and secured. The crew began removing load bearing pins from an overhead crane to free the radome. A load bearing pin was stuck. The injured employee went to remove the pin manually as a second team member applied pressure from the opposite side. The pin unexpectedly released and struck the injured employee s right thumb, resulting in partial amputation of the distal phalanx including an open distal phalanx fracture and nail bed laceration.

An employee was working on an electrical panel in a mechanical room when an arc flash occurred. The employee suffered burns.

At about 3:10 p.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was inspecting a car. Two dogs that had been in another car were leashed and tethered to a bollard. As the employee inspected the first car along with a narcotics detection dog, one of the other dogs came loose and attacked the narcotics dog. The employee was separating the dogs when the other dog bit his left ring finger. The last joint of the finger was injured and part of it was bitten off.

An employee was preparing a bundle of green onions for chopping. While holding the bundle in his left hand, he made his first cut using a 9-inch kitchen knife held in his right hand. The knife contacted the tip of his left thumb, resulting in an amputation of approximately 0.5 inches of the thumb that required hospitalization.