Ex-croupier sues Crown Resorts for ‘severe’ roulette table injuries

A 55-year-old woman is claiming that her previous job with Crown Resorts has left her unable to work in any capacity, local media reported.

According to the Herald Sun, Jo Taylor is asking for “hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation” for the injuries she got while working at the roulette table. In her statement of claim, Taylor said she had to work “twisting, reaching and stretching across” a roulette table for long periods of time in 2011, and that she was also told to work even though the table’s chip-sorting machine had already conked out.

This, according to the woman’s claim, caused “undue stress” on her back, resulting in “severe injury with permanent residual disability and impairment.”

Taylor said Crown was negligent in at least 19 areas, which included ignoring her injury and complaints, failing to rotate staff’s work, failing to provide the staff with “ergonomically designed work station,” and failing to maintain its equipment “adequately.”