Coast casino hotel guest’s lawsuit claims shower door exploded, injuries ‘severe’
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- Guest alleges shower door exploded at Hollywood Casino hotel, causing severe lacerations.
- Lawsuit claims casino failed to inspect and maintain glass door, causing injuries.
- Plaintiff claims negligence, seeks damages for medical treatment, lost-wages.
A Hollywood Casino Gulf Coast guest is suing over what she claims was an exploding shower door.
Katherine Ellis of Jackson says she was a guest of adjoining Hollywood Hotel on the evening of Feb. 28 when she took a shower.
She slid the shower door to the left and was stepping out, her lawsuit says, when “the glass shower door panel exploded, or otherwise failed catastrophically, causing shattered glass particles and glass shards to be propelled forcibly into and onto plaintiff’s body.”
She says that she suffered “severe lacerations and cutting injuries to her head, face, upper body, both thighs and both legs.” Her companion tried to stop the bleeding with towels, the lawsuit says, before two casino employees responded and wrapped her thighs and legs in gauze.
Attorney Edward Blackmon Jr. of Canton has filed a lawsuit on Ellis’ behalf in Hancock County Circuit Court. Hollywood Casino has not yet had time to respond to the complaint.
Casino patron’s lawsuit seeks damages
The lawsuit accuses the company of negligence, saying the shower door was not properly inspected or maintained.
Ellis says she went by ambulance to Ochsner Medical Center in Bay St. Louis, where she was treated and directed to shower. In the shower, the lawsuit says, she removed additional glass shards from her hair and “open wounds on her body.”
Ellis says that she is seeking treatment from an ophthalmologist for continuing eye irritation. Her family physician is treating persistent pain from cuts to her body, legs and thighs, the lawsuit says.
She is seeking unspecified monetary damages for medical expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress, lost wages and earning capacity, and permanent scarring and disfigurement, and legal expenses. The lawsuit says that she also wants unspecified punitive damages, if evidence warrants, and court costs.
