Pittsburgh Casino Visitor Allegedly Got Covered With Feces After Pipe Broke

Posted on: October 19, 2024, 07:06h.

Last updated on: October 21, 2024, 10:47h.

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A Pennsylvania woman has filed a negligence lawsuit against Live! Casino Pittsburgh after she claims a pipe burst and sewage fell over her body while in the gaming property.

The victim, Rita Romagnoli of Greensburg, Pa., was at the casino with her husband, Robert, on July 28, according to Pennsylvania TV station KDKA.

Without warning, the pipe burst while she was gambling.

While seated at a slot machine, Rita was … drenched with human fecal matter due to an overhead pipe which burst,” according to the recently-filed legal action.

Suffered Bacterial Pneumonia

The incident led to her getting hospitalized for two weeks, she revealed.

As a direct and proximate result of the negligence of the defendants, plaintiff contracted bacterial pneumonia which resulted in a 15-day inpatient stay at Westmoreland Hospital,” the lawsuit stated, according to KDKA.

Based on online sources, bacterial pneumonia is a lung infection. Bacteria impacts air sacs and tissue in the lungs.

Rita Romagnoli and her family experienced pain, suffering, inconvenience, embarrassment, mental anguish, as well as emotional and psychological trauma due to the situation, KDKA reported.

Among the parties identified in the lawsuit was Stadium Casino, a Pennsylvania limited liability corporation that operates Live! Casino Pittsburgh.

Stadium Casino allegedly “failed to maintain and/or repair the premises to ensure guests were safe, failed to inspect and/or repair known or unknown defects in the premises and failed to prevent and/or remove a dangerous condition of the premises,” KDKA reported.

The lawsuit was filed in a Pennsylvania court. The plaintiff’s attorneys are requesting $30K in damages.

The Romagnolis are represented by Summers, McDonnell, Hudock, Guthrie & Raunch, a Pittsburgh-based law firm. Among its specialties are personal injury cases.

Second Victim

In recent days, an unnamed woman was interviewed by KDKA who had a similar experience.

“I was sitting at a slot machine, and all of a sudden water came pouring down on me and another gentleman that I did not know, that was sitting at the slot machine next to me,” she said.

It was in my hair. It hit my face. And it was all over my clothes. I mean, I was like, literally, soaking wet.”

Casino employees informed her the substance that landed on her was “water,” she recalled.

But she is not so sure.

“I was a little more concerned because I didn’t know what the water was. They assured me that they thought it was just regular water and everything,” she said.