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Slip and Falls

People love to get away for vacation, and enjoy going across the country to say in hotels along their route. As you travel to different towns and destinations, you will likely stay in a hotel such as the Sleep Inn & Suites. While living in a hotel, there is a high risk of being injured from a slip and fall or tripping accident at the hotel. The guests at a hotel do not frequent the hotel daily before their visit. For this reason, guests at a Sleep Inn & Suites can fall down or trip on loose carpet or on wet flooring during their stay at the hotel. Employees can be injured as well, and will have to file a Workers’ Compensation claim against the employer for their injuries obtained while at work.

It is the duty and responsibility of the maintenance department at the hotel, as advised by the hotel managers, supervisors or owners, to take care of maintaining a clean and dry floor for the guests and employees. The flooring needs to be free of tripping, falling or slipping hazards at all times, or risk injury to guests or employees who currently work or frequent the hotel living areas.

How Do People Trip and Fall at a Hotel?

People who stay at a Sleep Inn & Suites hotel can trip on many areas in the hotel. In the lobby of this hotel chain, there are cut out areas where guests can sit down and converse with each other. Those areas have carpet on them, which is different from the overall lobby tile flooring. Additionally, there can be carpet squares in the area near the elevators or the front desk. These carpet squares can be major tripping hazards for a guest, if the edges of the carpet square are not lying down flat on the floor.

Café Self-Serves Are a Recipe for Disaster in a Hotel

In the café restaurant area, there is a self-serving coffee station, with tables and chairs. If a person making his own coffee spills the coffee or is careless in making a cup of joe, then those coffee grounds or spills can make a dangerous sliding and slipping hazard in that area of the hotel. The area in the business center has a roller mat under the office chairs, but the mat is placed on the tile flooring. If a guest comes into the business area barefoot or in low sandals, that person can trip on that office type of roller mat and become injured.

In the business area alcove are located several vending machines. If a guest comes to that area and spills a drink on the flooring, the next guest is likely to slip on the sticky substance that will be left as residue from the spilled over drink.

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Ancillary Function Rooms in Hotels Can Cause Tripping Hazards

The function rooms, hotel rooms and gym at the Sleep Inn & Suites hotel are all carpeted. If these areas have any tears, rips, buckles or pits in the carpets a guest or employee could fall down having encountered it. At the pool area, the water is continually splashed onto the concrete barrier areas that surround the pool. The pool area is a slipping hazard all the way around, as is the hot tub area, where guests and employees need to exercise extreme caution when walking or working in these areas.

The shower and bathroom area of the Sleep Inn & Suites hotel are also a prime area where a guest could trip and fall. Extreme caution needs to be taken getting in and out of the shower stall, to avoid slipping with wet feet on the flooring tiles below. Even if the bottom of the shower stall is grooved, any amount of moisture, mold, fungus or soap scum could cause a guest to slip and fall backwards in the shower area. It is important to be careful entering and exiting a shower area, to avoid falling down and becoming injured.

Free Second Opinion

If you have been injured at a hotel, you will want to discuss your case with a lawyer with experience in slip and falls that occur in the hotel environment. We are able to talk to you about your case, anytime and in any circumstance. If you want to discuss your case with a lawyer who knows how to win in these types of cases, you can call us for a second opinion. Your lawyer will work with you and talk to you about the merits of the case, and what you stand to recover in compensation if you work with us. This second opinion on your case is free of charge. We will give you access to lawyers who can help with your slip and fall claim, to get you to a winning settlement.

Falling Ceiling or Roof Collapse

Hotels have an added responsibility to review the safety of its structures at all times, to ensure that the hotel is safe for the guests and staff to work in. Hotels tend to have many booked rooms, where guests are constantly taking showers. It is critical that the Sleep Inn & Suites hotels check the rooms and areas around the guest rooms to determine the structural soundness of the walls.

Constant moisture will have a detrimental effect on wood, dry wall and tiles. The moisture that can form in these areas can cause mold, mold spores and fungus to grow. The moisture can also start to break down construction materials, from lack of proper air flow. Additionally, if a guest accidentally floods a room, either from the shower, toilet or sink, that water will accumulate in the floor of that room, and possibly compromise the ceiling of the room below. The building materials will take in water and become over saturated, to the point that the ceiling could actually fully collapse.

Isn’t It Unusual for a Ceiling to Collapse at a Hotel?

It is not unusual to have a ceiling collapse in these types of cases. And it will happen well before an employee of the maintenance department can come up and shop vacuum the area to rid the flooring of the wayward water works.

Responsibility for Premises Maintenance

There are hotel managers, supervisors, staff and regional managers in charge of working with the maintenance team to keep a hotel in tip top safe condition. This is the case at all hotel chains or even at a small hotel in a rural area. Hotel managers and supervisors are well aware of the tripping hazards when a cart is left in a hallway, or if trays are left too long outside of a guest’s door in a common corridor area. These hazards can be dangerous for any guest or employee, and need to be remediated immediately for the safety of everyone living and working at the hotel.

Trip and Falls Over Loose Carpeting

On the one hand, an argument can be made that there are literally miles and miles of flooring and carpeting at a hotel, and that it would be impossible to keep track of all of it for a guest to prevent a tripping hazard. It is too bad though, but this argument does not hold water at all! Of course, a hotel is responsible for every square inch of the carpet and tiles at the hotel, that is the point.

When the housekeeping staff is on rounds making up the rooms, they should be trained to be on the lookout for loose tiles, buckles in carpets, or pits in carpeted or tiled flooring areas. If the staff notices something wrong, they should be trained to bring it to the attention of the maintenance staff or to the manager at the hotel. In this way, the employees are helping the hotel owner to prevent tripping hazards and manage the risk that someone will be seriously injured from tripping and falling on the hotel flooring. If you happen to trip over loose carpets or tiling at a hotel, our case attorneys in Los Angeles can sue and get you the money that you deserve for this type of case.

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When you want to call us to talk about your slip and fall or tripping on carpet or tile case against a Sleep Inn & Suites, we are ready to talk to you. We know what it will take to win a successful action against a hotel, and we have lawyers who can help with your case to get you the compensation that you deserve in this situation. Our group has attorneys who specialize in winning slip and fall cases, and we are prepared to help you now as well. You do not have to pay us a retainer up front, there are no fees before we settle your case at the final settlement.

Sexual Assault on the Premises

Generally, at hotels, there are not overt safety concerns that a guest has to be concerned with, except the obvious to be aware of their surroundings. But it does happen that there can be the case of a sexual assault on the premises of a hotel either for a guest or for an employee. In this regard, the hotel is responsible to protect the guests and employees from people who have no business being at the hotel, from gaining authorized access to the premises.

For example, hotels need to ensure that the doors, windows and main way to get into the lobby of the hotel are safe, secured and requiring of some type of verification to gain entry. Guest and employees should have to scan a card, use a special key or otherwise be able to distinguish the guest or employee’s ability to enter the hotel approved, with bad actors being prevented from entering the premises.

How Do Sexual Assaults Occur at a Hotel?

Sexual assaults are on the rise at hotels. There needs to be functioning video cameras, working call buttons at the front desk to notify police of an issue, and protocols in place to talk to employees about the risk of being attacked sexually at the hotel. It is the responsibility of the hotel to secure doorways 24/7, and to educate and train employees what to do if an intruder comes into the hotel unannounced.

Employees Need Protection Too When Working at a Hotel

The employees also need to know that they can go to their manager at any time if they feel threatened by the actions or behaviors of a guest who is staying in any of the rooms of the hotel. A sexual assault is a serious and traumatic event for anyone to have to experience. If this has happened to you, you will need to give us a call immediately. Our Los Angeles case lawyers can file a lawsuit and allow you to know that we can sue the hotel for these crimes. You need to talk to an attorney with expertise in sexual assault cases, who is also an experienced attorney in Los Angeles.

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When you give us a call, you will talk to a lawyer with specialty in sexual assaults in hotels, slip and fall injuries in hotels, and any other personal injuries occur in the hotel environment. You can sue the responsible parties for your personal injuries, and we are here to help with a free consultation on your case. Just call us today.

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