I need some help knowing if I can sue/who to go to to start paperwork/if it's even a viable case.
Here's the story from last night:
Some of you know that due to some things going on I'm dancing only two days a week. I needed something else to supplement my income and keep me busy. I took a bartending job at a bikini bar here in town.
All week things have been going great. Cept for this mop. It's the bane of my existence. It weighs, no joke, forty pounds when wet. Le sigh. So, last night, big strong bouncer man says "You sweep, I'll mop." Sweet! But when the boss lady comes in, she goes, "Your mopping sucks." and I say, I'll fix it. Like a dumbass.
I walk into the closet, and the mop is seemingly standing upside down in a corner. I grab it, and it's super heavy. I start to pick it up and all of a sudden I'm hit in the stomach and the face with *something* very painful. Something is hissing.
I'm standing there dazed wondering WTF happened when Husband comes rushing in with the bouncer and the boss lady. Thank goodness it was closing time and he was there to pick me up.
My shirt is ripped open from my stomach down. I have a huge gash the size of my middle finger and just as wide, and I am dripping blood. And it BURNS like a motherfucker. My eyes are burning. I have a cut on my forehead. That also BURNS.
The fucking dumbass propped a forty pound mop upside down over an unmounted C02 tank. A five foot tall CO2 tank with exposed nozzles. KNOWING that little bitty me would have to lift it a foot over my head to clear it, if I even knew it was there, which I didn't. The mop was so heavy it pulled it over or got tangled in the valves (I'm not sure which.) Thus, the gash on my stomach. The cut on my forehead is from chipped tile. The thing fell hard enough to CHIP TILE. The gas was rushing everywhere, thus the hissing. And, presumably, the burning.
Next day, I'm still hurting, badly. My stomach is cramping badly and I'm vomiting blood. I did go to the doc. Got a scrip for the pain and was told the bloody vomit was from the stress (I have ulcers). Internal bruising.
Turns out after a little research it's illegal to have those tanks not chained to a wall. For a reason, apparently. OSHA req's are laws, right?
Mostly I'm really shaken up, really hurting, and pretty damn angry that they'd leave a safety hazard like that, and not even warn me. I don't know if I have a case. I mean, it's not like I lost an arm or something.
Do I have a case? Who do I go to? How do I find a lawyer?



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